Sentence examples for contemporary term from inspiring English sources

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

Then there are those drawn to the show primarily by the "mythology," that inflated contemporary term that's perfectly congruent with the outsize hype surrounding the series's sixth and final season on ABC.

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.

Natural family planning is the more widely used, contemporary term for the broad range of techniques aimed at helping women to predict fertile days so they can avoid having sex then.

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.

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).

Or, at least, inappropriate in contemporary terms.

You want the piece to work in contemporary terms".

In contemporary terms its influence has been on the slide for some time.

In contemporary terms, this strand of civic republicanism is often associated with communitarianism.

Instead of restoring Harrison's building, they have rethought the Glass Center in contemporary terms.