Sentence examples for the contemporary term from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
When he made his speech in July at Mosul's Great Mosque declaring the creation of an Islamic state with himself as its caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi quoted at length from the Indian/Pakistani thinker Abul A'la Maududi, the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami party in 1941 and originator of the contemporary term Islamic state.
The contemporary term for this kind of mechanism is empathy (for the distinction between sympathy and empathy, see Darwall 1998; Sober and Wilson 1998).
Similarly, if the slaves died a "natural death" (as the contemporary term put it) at sea, then insurance could not be claimed.
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.
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.
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.
We need to get back to thinking about the Urformen and the engrams in contemporary terms — to the study, including the neurological and scientific study, of culturally modulated gestures.
Mr. Miike's story, taken from a comic book by Hideo Yamamoto, might be described in the more contemporary terms of a sadist-meets-masochist melodrama.
