How to Use modern-day in a Sentence

modern-day

adjective
  • So, what does Samhain have to do with modern-day Halloween?
    Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But there’s no evidence that such a plan can work in the modern-day NHL.
    Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Should the tale of a 600-year-old artist, with its technical asides on the art of the fresco, come before the tale of modern-day teenage angst?
    Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Her past Grammys looks have ranged from modern-day trends to Y2K to vintage, and we've been obsessed with them all.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Though omega-6 fats are necessary for health, most modern-day diets are too high in omega-6 fats and too low in omega-3 fats.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • In my mind, modern-day Malibu was freighted with so much baggage.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Your chef-in-training will relish cooking up a feast in this pretend kitchen that has all the modern-day conveniences and then some.
    Pamela Brill, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
  • But this being a modern-day Shakespearean romance, all's well that ends well.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2024
  • It was viewed as a victory for the former colony, though what this gift might mean for its modern-day citizens was anybody’s guess.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 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
  • One store owner, who requested not to be identified, agreed to discuss the prevalence of modern-day witchcraft in the state.
    Gary Collins, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2025
  • But, like a modern-day Melrose Place, Beekman Towers (a.k.a.
    Nora Dahlia, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • It's accounted for the largest modern-day migration in the Western Hemisphere — nearly 8 million people have fled Maduro's regime in the past decade.
    Avery Lotz, Axios, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Here, nine shape-shifting looks that paved the way—and continue to do so—for modern-day fashion plates daring to do things differently.
    Vogue, 31 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • One pilgrimage guide informed travelers that one of the best sources of water in the holy land was just outside Haifa, in modern-day Israel.
    Megan Cassidy-Welch, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025

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