Sentence examples for a contemporary term from inspiring English sources

Here, as in a few other stories, the neatness of construction takes something away from what should perhaps be a more edgy reading experience, especially given the title of the collection, a contemporary term implying content that may invoke the reader's deepest, darkest memories.

It marked the beginning of my career, a startup, to use a contemporary term.

Hidden mother photography is a contemporary term for when Victorian mothers hid behind veils and held their child while the photographer took the long exposure image.

To fulfill the terms of the patent and gain title, the holder or his designee had to live on the land for a year in the contemporary term, to "seat" the land.

In new guidelines published last month, he recognised that the shopping scooter was in the process of being revolutionalised as a concept, declaring that he had "decided that the legal term 'invalid carriage' should be replaced with a more suitable and contemporary term" (without specifying what that term might be).

Similarly, if the slaves died a "natural death" (as the contemporary term put it) at sea, then insurance could not be claimed.

This was not unusual in Lochearnhead; though thirty-six miles north of Glasgow, it was a world away, on the other side of the Highland boundary and surrounded by mountains — a place one contemporary termed "a small, straggling village".

In Dalrymple's eyes, Kirkpatrick attempted something riskier: he not only converted to Islam and married Khair un-Nissa, a young girl - a "minor" in contemporary terms - from a Muslim aristocratic family, but also began to question the more brazenly imperialist policies of his bosses.

However, she may also have had a fling with Van Dyck (or engaged in "gallantries" with him, as the contemporary term had it) before they fell out over the price of her portrait.

Sexual acts attributed to the Sodomites gave the city's name to the contemporary term sodomy.

The contemporary term for these cataclysms is "mass extinctions," and the geological record suggests that, in the past half billion years, there have been five major ones and a dozen or more lesser ones.