cotemporary
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Would Lorin Stein, the editor of the Paris Review, still have declared in the New York Times book review that it “solved a big problem of the cotemporary novel?”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2014
No cotemporary of the boy, excepting impressible, wayward Powell, seems ever to have suspected the little one as being the giant rogue.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen
The cotemporary who related this made no comment; expressed no wonder.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
With regard to the asseverations of cotemporary writers, as to the effects which Mary’s beauty produced, many of them are almost too extravagant to be believed.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford
Or how could those men who were cotemporary with him, know, as they approached him, or as they approached each other, whether they were meeting a man or a God?
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey
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