How to Use modernization in a Sentence

modernization

noun

• The capsule is a modernization of vintage looks from the ‘70s and ‘90s.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 7 Nov. 2023
• There was no need, from my point of view anyway, for any sort of modernization.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• All the things that require modernization in any home, are.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 25 July 2023
• While male CEOs still run much of the industry, the sector in need of modernization seems to be turning to women for that task.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
• But with the modernization of home plumbing and heating, black widow bites are now rare.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
• Its guns and launchers were too few in number—and hurting for modernization.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• The Washoe County School District, meanwhile, is in the midst of a five- to 10-year facilities modernization plan.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
• The sheriff last week sought and received approval from the Board of Supervisors to proceed with the modernization plan.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• The strain on the U.S. travel system would lead to more flight delays, longer screening lines and holdups in air travel modernization, according to the group.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
• Banks have two options throughout the rest of this decade: Core replacement or core modernization.
  — Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Gibbons plans on addressing those code issues as part of a much bigger modernization project, the one that could begin in 2027.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• The modernization of the sector led to the transformation of many coffee plantations into vast fields that were fully exposed to the sun.
  — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2023
• All of this contributes to a dilemma facing the twin realms of AI research and military modernization.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• But despite modernizations, these monarchs rule with an iron fist.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• However, as things so often have happened in Russia's space program, this modernization work has been put on hold due to a lack of funding.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2023
• The train crash has raised questions over the safety of the country’s massive and outdated rail network, as the government invests in its modernization.
  — Kunal Sehgal, CNN, 4 June 2023
• The Oscar winner takes on a bare-bones modernization of Henrik Ibsen's classic play, to mixed results.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• That authentic silhouette would erase the creep of modernization that taints many rental costumes.
  — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Buttigieg said the $68.7 million award to Anchorage’s port is the largest one given so far through the Department of Transportation’s port modernization grant program.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
• The original building was six decades old and needed modernization even before the tornado ripped through.
  — Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Local shipyards have since been hurt, to varying degrees, by the Navy’s decision to send some of their vessels elsewhere for repairs and modernization.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2023
• The new concessions are the latest changes at Midway, which has seen new food and retail offerings open in recent years as part of earlier stages of the modernization program.
  — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
• Schools that have replaced all potable water outlets as part of a modernization that occurred after 2010 would be exempt from testing.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• The landscape — wetlands, fish and shrimp ponds fashioned out of mangrove swamp — has largely been preserved, offering a rare look at what life in this region was like before modernization in the 1980s.
  — Theodora Yu, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• The Pentagon's efforts were spurred by the rapid modernization of China's military forces.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 2 Dec. 2022
• The good news is, proponents of both slow growth and modernization are activated by love of their communities.
  — Mark Bisnow, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
• The modernization effort stems from nearly $80 billion in funding over a decade that Congress approved last year as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• It is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $1.9 billion, though most involved in the modernization efforts admit that such figures are crude estimates at best.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Pentagon is also seeking rapid modernization of its air, space and nuclear weapons.
  — Tara Copp, ajc, 13 Mar. 2023
• The grants, which totaled $50 million for the tribes and to four states, will fund electric grid modernization to reduce impacts due to extreme weather and natural disasters.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 23 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024