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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Nation/World Updated: 10 hours ago It is revered as a modern-day musket.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The mountain chalet lodging reflects the property's historic roots with a modern-day spin.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023
• One store owner, who requested not to be identified, agreed to discuss the prevalence of modern-day witchcraft in the state.
  — Gary Collins, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2025
• But, like a modern-day Melrose Place, Beekman Towers (a.k.a.
  — Nora Dahlia, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
• To build the model with dimorphism, the team followed the size differences of alligators, the T. rex’s modern-day kin.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
• Swim bladders that control buoyancy in modern-day fish are thought to have evolved from the lungs of ancient ancestors.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• Minari filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung's new spin offers a modern-day take on the disaster tale.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 19 July 2024