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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The United States president arrived hat in hand, seeking money and promises from China’s latter-day emperor, Xi Jinping.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
• Like other latter-day classics by Cindy Lee and Los Thuthanaka, the record seems to exist in its own time warp, echoing through the years while confounding any simple, linear notion of tradition or progress.
  — Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 9 July 2026
• As decolonization transformed fading colonial empires into a hundred new nations, rival superpowers dispatched covert operatives, latter-day men on the spot, to win over those emerging states by any means necessary.
  — Alfred McCoy, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
• Most latter-day Switch games suffered from frame rate dips here and there, as newer games outstripped the capabilities of a low-power tablet processor that had already been a couple of years old when the Switch launched in 2017.
  — ArsTechnica, 16 May 2025
• Other scholars, however, downplay the book’s diablerie, viewing the Pequod’s captain instead as an admirably heroic overreacher or a latter-day Prometheus facing down the gods, fate, the uncaring universe.
  — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026