Example Sentences

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“I like the aesthetics of it, I like the modernness of it, yet it has the quality of those boat barns and it has the softness of the wood,” said Jones, 81.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023

There is the same contrast between the antiquity of the events and the modernness of the characters.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

This change and desecration, this inroad of modernness, merely completes its eternity.

From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon

Old houses tell it, old trees tell it, old names tell it, and the very modernness of the new things emphasizes the heroic drama of the past.

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

As Peter had noted, you never knew where to "have" Gabriel Nash; a truth exemplified in his unexpected delight at the prospect of Miriam's drawing forth the modernness of the age.

From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry