How to Use latter-day in a Sentence

latter-day

adjective

• The tales of their genesis constitute latter-day Greek myths whose gods have bold-faced names like Onassis and Niarchos.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
• Here, one woman (Katherine Henly, tireless in a role with equal demands on her voice and acting skills) is whisked from scene to scene, like a latter-day Wozzeck.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• First described in 2019, Bajadasaurus wore a mohawk better than any latter-day punk rocker.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
• The couple’s 5-year-old son, Prince Louis, has become a latter-day version of a young Harry, squirming and making faces at solemn occasions.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Like Dudamel, Hrůša is youngish by conducting’s standards (at age 41) and telegenic, looking like a latter-day Thomas Schippers.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
• In effect, those dolts have allied themselves with Hamas, a terrorist military cabal hell-bent on a latter-day holocaust.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
• His biggest latter-day singles were collaborations that found success on the country singles charts.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
• The latter album in particular benefited from Albini’s spare, no-frills sound, which was at odds with the duo’s elaborate latter-day recordings.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 8 May 2024
• About three years ago, results from these latter-day imaging methods clashed violently with the classical neuroanatomy from Penfield’s era.
  — Nico U.f. Dosenbach, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023
• So, who gets to join the secret society of latter-day Greco-Roman authoritarians?
  — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• Halfway through, things get intense, as heavy hand percussion slams into Middle Eastern drumming, fast techno, punishing electro, and even a latter-day remix of one of grime’s founding documents.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023
• Elgar’s 1905 Introduction and Allegro certainly defies latter-day misperceptions of the composer as all stiff upper lip.
  — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024