How to Use latter-day in a Sentence

latter-day

adjective
  • Now a latter-day saint in the literal sense of the term, Jerry is pure of heart.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Now a latter-day saint in the literal sense of the term, Jerry is pure of heart.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 18 June 2024
  • In the former, a topless man half reclines on a twin bed—a latter-day Madame Récamier.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The tales of their genesis constitute latter-day Greek myths whose gods have bold-faced names like Onassis and Niarchos.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Here, one woman (Katherine Henly, tireless in a role with equal demands on her voice and acting skills) is whisked from scene to scene, like a latter-day Wozzeck.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • First described in 2019, Bajadasaurus wore a mohawk better than any latter-day punk rocker.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • The couple’s 5-year-old son, Prince Louis, has become a latter-day version of a young Harry, squirming and making faces at solemn occasions.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Like Dudamel, Hrůša is youngish by conducting’s standards (at age 41) and telegenic, looking like a latter-day Thomas Schippers.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
  • As its blades whirred, guests craned their necks to watch as Mr. Boesky emerged in a tuxedo and black tie, by all accounts looking like a latter-day James Bond and completely upstaging the host family.
    Leslie Wayne, New York Times, 20 May 2024
  • In effect, those dolts have allied themselves with Hamas, a terrorist military cabal hell-bent on a latter-day holocaust.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Tell me another band ever in history that has made a latter-day album that good in their 80s, with that level of songwriting, that level of performance.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
  • That spot, beneath a sturdy Mulberry tree, boasts a handsome bench and a waterproof journal in which visitors can pen their thoughts, like latter-day Thoreaus.
    Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 8 Nov. 2024
  • His biggest latter-day singles were collaborations that found success on the country singles charts.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The latter album in particular benefited from Albini’s spare, no-frills sound, which was at odds with the duo’s elaborate latter-day recordings.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • About three years ago, results from these latter-day imaging methods clashed violently with the classical neuroanatomy from Penfield’s era.
    Nico U.f. Dosenbach, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023
  • So, who gets to join the secret society of latter-day Greco-Roman authoritarians?
    Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Halfway through, things get intense, as heavy hand percussion slams into Middle Eastern drumming, fast techno, punishing electro, and even a latter-day remix of one of grime’s founding documents.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Elgar’s 1905 Introduction and Allegro certainly defies latter-day misperceptions of the composer as all stiff upper lip.
    Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • These latter-day doges only see regulations as obstacles to righteous, plundering plutocrats.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024

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