How to Use modern-day in a Sentence

modern-day

adjective
  • But that's just the beginning of the modern-day princess mien.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The 35-year-old first baseman has been something of a modern-day iron man.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • More than 1,500 years ago, the ancient Maya city of Caracol thrived in the forests of modern-day Belize.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2025
  • The roots of modern-day prepping in the United States go back to the 1950s, when fears of nuclear war reached a fever pitch.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 17 June 2025
  • 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
  • Last year’s Chicago White Sox set a modern-day record with 121 losses.
    — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The modern-day timeline starts when the youngest, Jude (now a glamorous movie star), summons them to North Dakota for the weekend.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 1 May 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
  • None of this should have been possible in modern-day Las Vegas.
    — David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • It’s set today in modern-day L.A., somewhere on the coast in a palatial mansion, which is a very sort of film noir setting.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 June 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
  • This isn’t the first time a bottled piece of history has made its way into modern-day headlines.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 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
  • The movie, which was a modern-day twist on the classic fairy tale, became a fan favorite, offering a feel-good mix of romance, music and dance.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • But this being a modern-day Shakespearean romance, all's well that ends well.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2024
  • As a reward for his exploits he was named governor of the New Kingdom of León, in the northeast of modern-day Mexico.
    — Flora Cassen, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
  • 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
  • Some have developed the habit because of modern-day time constraints.
    — Jamie Friedlander Serrano, Time, 22 Jan. 2026

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