Example Sentences
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His expertise is measured instead by the number and recentness of trips he has taken to the country.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 15, 2013
The huddling together of our American cities is due to the recentness of the time when space was our greatest enemy and sparseness our chief discouragement.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various
They had, indeed, lived a long time ago, but this was no disadvantage: any one who reads Tatian's Oratio ad Graecos can see how antiquity, not recentness, was regarded as desirable.
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp
The extreme recentness of his inspiration is as enviable as the tale is startling that his productions tell of his being at home, domesticated and initiated, in this wicked and weary world.
From Views and Reviews by James, Henry
In the list of names upon the outer doors of the firm's vast labyrinthine suite, on the seventeenth floor of the Syndicate Building, his name came last—and, in the newest lettering, suggesting recentness of partnership.
From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham
