Example sentences for: present-day

How can you use “present-day” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He managed to sell his idea to a San Francisco consortium that became known as the Central Pacific’s “Big Four” — Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Leland Stanford, names that continue to echo in both the streets and institutions of present-day California.

  • Another of the new ideas was to set up a permanent residential capital for the imperial court, initially at Naniwa (present-day Osaka) and then a little to the east, at Nara, in 710.

  • Not only did Timothy Noah's Nov. 2 "Chatterbox" contain major factual errors, the comparisons it drew between the present-day situation and that of Thomas Jefferson is very disheartening.

  • Veteran Soviet-era director Sergei Bodrov transposes a Tolstoy short story about Russian soldiers held by Muslim foes to present-day Chechnya.

  • As long as you're positing an evolutionary urge with no present-day benefits, why assume the most complicated explanation is correct?


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