How to Use present-day in a Sentence

present-day

adjective

• On the other hand, present-day Tai has her eyes only on the prize.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
• One grave was of a woman buried with a glass bead from Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq.
  — Reuters, CNN, 22 June 2023
• Within one of the graves, the team found a woman buried with a glass bead from present-day Iraq (Mesopotamia).
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
• The book begins in present-day Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
  — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
• But there has to be a present-day urgency compelling the return to the past.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• This present-day Deer Lady smiles all the time, even if much of her pleasure comes from killing.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• The eight sites making up the earthworks are spread across 90 miles of what is present-day southern Ohio.
  — Julie Carr Smyth, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• And then present-day scenes can undermine drama in the past.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• Yet in present-day Ghana, surfing is largely the domain of tourists.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2024
• The action mainly takes place in Greece, starting in the 1980s, but concludes in present-day Berlin.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
• The researchers then compared that data with the genomes of 2,000 present-day humans.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 31 July 2024
• And in a present-day collab, Turlington had her daughter, Grace Burns, with her on the runway.
  — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
• Is the duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) huddling in a giant bomb crater?
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• In some cases, this analysis spells doom for a present-day law.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
• One day, about 1,100 years ago, a scribe in present-day Israel or Syria sat down to begin work on a book.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Artists of decades and centuries past to be held to present-day comportment standards?
  — Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• Megalodon has a lot in common with its present-day relative, the great white shark.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• Then, join host Coy Wire on his journey to learn about rare creatures from ancient Egypt to present-day Hawaii.
  — CNN, 7 Nov. 2023
• Along with that present-day footage, the documentary plays footage from a Rocky V premiere.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
• The ancient lake stood more than 25 feet higher than where present-day Lakes Michigan and Huron sit today.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
• This group lived on the central coast of present-day Peru before the Inca Empire came to power.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
• This came as a surprise not only because of where those planes were — a swath of my present-day neighborhood — but when.
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• The oral histories of many present-day tribes link their ancestors to earthen mounds.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 June 2023
• Kaos puts Greek and Roman mythology in a present-day setting.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
• These early seals had legs for walking instead of flippers, a long tail, and were much longer, and looked a bit like present-day otters.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
• The team found the tunnels beneath the ruins of Mitla, an ancient city in present-day Oaxaca.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
• Walk back in time on the Nakasendo Trail, a 17th-century route that samurai once used to travel between Kyoto and present-day Tokyo.
  — Christina Liao, Vogue, 2 July 2024
• But is there anything in the sprawling, multi-genre movie that can speak to our present-day situation?
  — EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• The film follows a sister and brother, Megan and Noah, who are barely hanging on in present-day America.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
• One way to measure the legacy of slavery is to determine whether the disproportionate riches of slaveholders have been passed down to their present-day descendants.
  — Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024