MODERN in a Sentence
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255 example sentences for MODERN, such as:
1. He seemed the most modern of modern voices.
2. It is true that modern weaponry depersonalised war.
3. The artist led off in the discussion on modern art.
4. Capital punishment has no place in a modern society.
5. They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances.
2. It is true that modern weaponry depersonalised war.
3. The artist led off in the discussion on modern art.
4. Capital punishment has no place in a modern society.
5. They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances.
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Meanings and Examples of MODERN
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modern
a. ahead of the times
n. a contemporary person
Classic Sentence: (122 in 9 pages)
1 Thick of waist, large of limb, and, save for her hair, fashionable in the tight modern way, she never looked like Sappho, or one of the beautiful young men whose photographs adorned the weekly papers.
2 Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money.
3 In place of these, he was equipped with a sword of lath, resembling that with which Harlequin operates his wonders upon the modern stage.
4 The floor was composed of earth mixed with lime, trodden into a hard substance, such as is often employed in flooring our modern barns.
5 Add to all this, Cedric had fasted since noon, and his usual supper hour was long past, a cause of irritation common to country squires, both in ancient and modern times.
6 Yet let not modern beauty envy the magnificence of a Saxon princess.
7 He had never been one of the modern ladylike young men: rather bucolic even, with his ruddy face and broad shoulders.
8 Connie and he were attached to one another, in the aloof modern way.
9 And since the field of life is largely an artificially-lighted stage today, the stories were curiously true to modern life, to the modern psychology, that is.
10 They appeared in the most modern magazines, and were praised and blamed as usual.
11 Her room was the only gay, modern one in the house, the only spot in Wragby where her personality was at all revealed.
12 He seemed the most modern of modern voices.
13 Because, after all, like so many modern men, he was finished almost before he had begun.
14 He dreaded her will, her female will, and her modern female insistency.
15 But she had that queer sort of bossiness, endless assertion of her own will, which is one of the signs of insanity in modern woman.
Example Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1 As a modern parent, I know that it's not how much you give children those counts, it's the love and attention you shower on them.
2 A storm - tossed ship was painted on the backdrop for the first act of the modern drama named Pirate.
3 The Royal Shakespeare Company also have many modern plays in their repertoire.
4 The artist led off in the discussion on modern art.
5 If you ask me, these modern teaching methods are a load of nonsense.
6 The family is the basic social unit of modern society.
7 Most of the buildings in the town are modern, but the church is an exception.
8 Space travel is one of the marvels/wonders of modern science.
9 It is true that modern weaponry depersonalised war.
10 This is a modern health services research unit but you hold an antiquated view of science.
11 They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances.
12 She saw herself as a direct, no-nonsense modern woman.
13 The interplay between the new politics and the modern media will unbalance the political process and inhibit its workings.
14 They were refused planning permission for a modern extension because it was a Grade II listed building.
15 Capital punishment has no place in a modern society.