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Example sentences for "modern days"

  • I do not know anything more humiliating to a man of common sense, than to open what is called an "illustrated Bible" of modern days.

  • Of this family is "Taghúm"; not used in modern days.

  • The Christmas dinner of modern days is, as most of our readers know, a gathering together of generations, an assembling of Israel by its tribes.

  • The sacred origin and meaning of this practice have, however, in modern days been a good deal lost sight of by these uncertificated harmonists in their selection of tunes.

  • Yet their history is a melancholy one, and their decline, on the settlement of Western New-York, was probably one of the most striking instances of the rapid depopulation of a tribe in modern days.

  • One of the masters of Eton College is illustrious through all time in which the English language is studied, as the writer of our earliest comedy, or the earliest which has come down intact to modern days.

  • The representations preserved in painting and sculpture show that this was not the gay and voluptuous movement of modern days, but rather a succession of graceful gestures, regulated by music, expressive of joy and emotion.

  • Fascinating, artful, able, ambitious, and unprincipled, she may be regarded as chief among many of the most celebrated of this class of her sex of ancient or modern days.

  • In Western lands, and in modern days, this command would convey no idea of shame or impropriety.

  • A curious reason is, indeed, given for this identity, one that will scarcely find many adherents in modern days.

  • How far greater a Gospel than the one of modern days!

  • Those who were intellectually qualified were taught, just as men are taught ordinary science in modern days.

  • There is no reason to suppose that this action has in the past been any greater or any less than in modern days.

  • All these instruments of precision are the inventions of modern days.

  • It has often been remarked that in Cicero's letters and those of Pliny the younger there are unmistakable indications of sympathy with the more sentimental feeling of modern days.

  • That is the phenomenon of modern days alone, that man by hundreds and by thousands despairs of his own immortality.

  • The only likeness in modern days is not now a very fortunate one in the eyes of many--the King-Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

  • There was thus begun in modern days a new slavery and slave trade.

  • He fell into border disputes with the English, and the result was one of the fiercest clashes of Europe and Africa in modern days.

  • Is this not a description of Israel's history in modern days?

  • The luxuriant fruitfulness of these late Jewish playwrights, standing in the sunlight of modern days, fully compensates for the sterility of the Jewish dramatic muse during the centuries of darkness.

  • Their heroism under the Maccabees and under Bar-Kochba, in the middle ages and in modern days, permits them to take rank among the most valiant in history.

  • Again Craven felt that he was in a more elegant London than the London of modern days.

  • In modern days he still held to the reserve of the very great gentleman, old-fashioned perhaps now, but nevertheless precious in his sight.

  • Nevertheless in modern days, when the culture of beauty counts in its service such marvellous experts, almost all things are possible.

  • In modern days, the hereditary bitterness against the English has lost much of its asperity, or rather has become merged in a new source of jealousy and apprehension: I allude to the incessant and wide-spreading irruptions from New-England.

  • Let not, however, the doubts of the worldly-wise sceptics of modern days rob us of all the glorious realms owned by happy credulity in days of yore.

  • In speaking of this doughty and valorous little pile, I shall call it by its usual appellation of "The Roost;" though that is a name given to it in modern days, since it became the abode of the white man.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern days" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adopted mother; mind cure; modern agriculture; modern church; modern criticism; modern critics; modern education; modern history; modern ideas; modern industry; modern knowledge; modern life; modern maps; modern music; modern philosophy; modern poets; modern society; modern state; modern usage; modern writers; moral force; periodic cyclones; small portions; sweet lard; then take out the; unanimous vote