CONTEMPORARY in a Sentence

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1. We have no contemporary account of the battle.
2. He is probably the most reviled man in contemporary theatre.
3. Almost all of the contemporary accounts of the event have been lost.
4. We can understand that the matter seemed like that to contemporaries.
5. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in the partition of Poland.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONTEMPORARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
contemporary
 a.  modern; belonging to the same period of time
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but short-sightedness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
2  But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary soldier, out of the question.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
3  He was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the priest of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  All contemporary social crimes have their origin in the partition of Poland.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5  This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic hour amid the stormy hours of this century.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  He even followed, with dignified indifference, it is true, the development of contemporary literature; so a grown-up man who meets a procession of small boys in the street will sometimes walk after it.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  The conversation turned on the contemporary gossip about those in power, in which most people see the chief interest of home politics.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIV
8  A contemporary event seems to us to be indubitably the doing of all the known participants, but with a more remote event we already see its inevitable results which prevent our considering anything else possible.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
9  He had been more her contemporary than Scarlett's and she had been devoted to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
10  But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
11  Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
12  Her contemporaries, the young wives, mothers and widows, loved her because she had suffered what they had suffered, had not become embittered and always lent them a sympathetic ear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  The orator, or the politician, who can produce such a state of things, is commonly popular with his contemporaries, however he may be treated by posterity.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
14  We can understand that the matter seemed like that to contemporaries.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I
15  But to the old countess those contemporaries of hers seemed to be the only serious and real society.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  We have no contemporary account of the battle.
2  The author builds up a useful composite picture of contemporary consumer culture.
3  Their marriage is a delicate balance between traditional and contemporary values.
4  In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.
5  I shall take four different examples from contemporary literature to illustrate my point.
6  Almost all of the contemporary accounts of the event have been lost.
7  Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.
8  The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny.
9  He is probably the most reviled man in contemporary theatre.
10  Part Five of this book will reveal that many contemporary political regimes are powerfully influenced by classical liberalism.
11  A significant exhibition of contemporary sculpture will be on view at the Portland Gallery.
12  The aim of the course is to help students to comprehend the structure of contemporary political and social systems.
13  The Eighties were an important decade for sculpture when many contemporary artists turned to three-dimensional work.
14  The Danes have now taken the top drama award at the Emmys for three out of the past four years with contemporary drama set in Denmark.
15  Although it looks old and worn, the interior is all about contemporary shapes and elegant furnishings.