How to Use modern-day in a Sentence

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• With sharp teeth and a long, bony tail, Archaeopteryx is a link to dinosaurs and modern-day birds.
  — Hans Sues, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
• But modern-day wellness influencers aren’t the first ones to have sung the praises of the goji berry.
  — Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 5 July 2024
• Mario may be a modern-day Mickey Mouse but his kingdom is on the console.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• While modern-day Halloween is filled with campy creepiness, that wasn’t always the case.
  — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2024
• Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 9 July 2024
• But what about the less obvious things that detract from a modern-day bathroom?
  — Madeline Bilis, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024
• The advice is witty and worldly (think: a modern-day Auntie Mame).
  — wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• What's more, curly perms aren’t a modern-day phenomenon by any means.
  — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 13 Aug. 2024
• The piece, known as the Howling Wolf, featured the animal stenciled in black paint on a white satellite dish, which served as a modern-day stand-in for a full moon.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
• But this being a modern-day Shakespearean romance, all's well that ends well.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2024
• Nation/World Updated: 10 hours ago It is revered as a modern-day musket.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The mountain chalet lodging reflects the property's historic roots with a modern-day spin.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023
• To build the model with dimorphism, the team followed the size differences of alligators, the T. rex’s modern-day kin.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
• Swim bladders that control buoyancy in modern-day fish are thought to have evolved from the lungs of ancient ancestors.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• Minari filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung's new spin offers a modern-day take on the disaster tale.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 19 July 2024
• But eight months of brutal trench warfare have transformed Bakhmut from an obscure mining city into a modern-day Stalingrad whose fate could shape the course of the war.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Next to each of Angel’s drawings, Oriol puts a modern-day twist on the signals by taking photos of Latinas mirroring the twins.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
• While at first glance the wisdom of past ages shouldn’t apply directly to the problems of modern-day tech startup founders, this is not necessarily the case.
  — Abdo Riani, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Enter the antithesis of a modern-day college quarterback, a three-year backup who didn’t transfer, didn’t walk out, didn’t sell out.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
• The modern-day version of the lava lamp Browse the projector’s huge library for something nifty to display by your gaming setup or in your living room.
  — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2024
• Strip away the varnish of nostalgia and you’re left with the fact that a chronograph wristwatch is about as useful to a modern-day Formula One driver as a mercury thermometer.
  — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2024
• The property’s restaurant, fittingly called the Courtroom, serves modern-day tavern fare from local chef Michael Alfeld.
  — Leigh Nordstrom, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
• That's because the people of this Midwestern city have created a modern-day welcome wagon.
  — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 4 July 2024
• Although the 700-acre Dyson technology campus doesn’t attract tourists, or modern-day Druids celebrating the solstice, the two sites still have a lot in common.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 15 Aug. 2024
• Retelling a classic novel can sometimes mean imbuing it with modern-day issues.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• The story revolves around a modern-day criminal profiler, who stumbles upon an old walkie-talkie that connects him to a police officer from the late 1980s.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024
• From harrowing recreations of world wars to sobering modern-day documentaries, Netflix has all manner of war films.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
• The modern-day list includes many fugitives involved in those same crimes, with crimes against children, white-collar crime and gang violence also having a presence, according to FBI.gov.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2024
• The pro-hunting group Hunting Kind is making the case that hunters are an ethnic minority who should be protected under modern-day equality laws.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2024
• The modern-day concept packs a hydrogen-electric drivetrain that produces nearly 700 hp.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024