Example Sentences

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My designs are modernly elegant and chic with a twist — interesting cuts, dramatic drapes from the back, and layering of different silk fabrics, like crepe de Chine, chiffon and tulle.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

However, Mason attains the necessary remoteness that is appropriate to the fictional character, modernly presented, and thus adds much to the effect.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2020

One part basic human anatomy, one part psychology, all brought together very modernly and in a nonjudgmental environment.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2015

More modernly, one of the early giants behind the eventual creation of the computer was John Mauchly. 

From Forbes • Nov. 23, 2014

Towards me you have always been compact of kindness; you took every precaution to have me brought up well, out of knowledge of any impurity; and well and modernly educated.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir