How to Use latter-day in a Sentence

latter-day

adjective

• Now a latter-day saint in the literal sense of the term, Jerry is pure of heart.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 18 June 2024
• In the former, a topless man half reclines on a twin bed—a latter-day Madame Récamier.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
• Below, a look at some of our favorite mythical runway looks for latter-day Penelopes and Athenas.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 16 July 2026
• And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.
  — JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
• His biggest latter-day singles were collaborations that found success on the country singles charts.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
• First described in 2019, Bajadasaurus wore a mohawk better than any latter-day punk rocker.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
• At the end of the show, they’ll be joined by latter-day Heartbreakers Steve Ferrone and Scott Thurston.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
• In effect, those dolts have allied themselves with Hamas, a terrorist military cabal hell-bent on a latter-day holocaust.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
• In many ways, My Days of 58 feels like just another latter-day Bill Callahan album.
  — David Harris, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2026
• In the end, Wainwright has created a latter-day bardo, the spiritual journey that follows death.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
• Everything leads us to believe that Veska and Iliya will duke it out or that Said will ride in to save the day, like a latter-day Shane.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 22 May 2026
• It was forgotten for decades until a 1990s restoration and revival led some latter-day viewers to pronounce it the better of the two.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026
• Gallner admits that his latter-day stretch of independent opportunities haven’t come easy either.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
• With its wrap-around, colonnaded portico, surely this Gilded Age structure left its latter-day beholders awestruck at first sight.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2025
• Here, one woman (Katherine Henly, tireless in a role with equal demands on her voice and acting skills) is whisked from scene to scene, like a latter-day Wozzeck.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• About three years ago, results from these latter-day imaging methods clashed violently with the classical neuroanatomy from Penfield’s era.
  — Nico U.f. Dosenbach, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023
• Bedward elicits commentary from latter-day scholars, historians, and Vodou priests.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026
• Tell me another band ever in history that has made a latter-day album that good in their 80s, with that level of songwriting, that level of performance.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
• The couple’s 5-year-old son, Prince Louis, has become a latter-day version of a young Harry, squirming and making faces at solemn occasions.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• That spot, beneath a sturdy Mulberry tree, boasts a handsome bench and a waterproof journal in which visitors can pen their thoughts, like latter-day Thoreaus.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 8 Nov. 2024
• The latter album in particular benefited from Albini’s spare, no-frills sound, which was at odds with the duo’s elaborate latter-day recordings.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 8 May 2024
• So, who gets to join the secret society of latter-day Greco-Roman authoritarians?
  — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• Two additional latter-day members, Steve Ferrone and Scott Thurston, also appeared.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026
• These latter-day doges only see regulations as obstacles to righteous, plundering plutocrats.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
• Like Dudamel, Hrůša is youngish by conducting’s standards (at age 41) and telegenic, looking like a latter-day Thomas Schippers.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
• In the past couple of decades, however, Czernowin has deëmphasized the frantic gesturing that characterizes so much latter-day modernism.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
• But these technical qualities only throw into relief the plastic, uncanny-valley feel of the characters whizzing about this latter-day Skull Island.
  — Caspar Salmon, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
• Worst of all, like latter-day Cassandras, they were seen by the university, city officials, and law enforcement to constitute a threat, perhaps a violent threat, to civil order.
  — Deborah Baker june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
• But others condemn the postcolonial dimensions of today’s capitalism, sometimes pairing present-day market forces with latter-day historical injustices to drum up outrage.
  — Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Halfway through, things get intense, as heavy hand percussion slams into Middle Eastern drumming, fast techno, punishing electro, and even a latter-day remix of one of grime’s founding documents.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023