contemporary

In a sentence

Six example sentences with contemporary, each labelled with its topic.

• Though critics treat him as a lone genius, he had a contemporary in Vienna writing quartets just as daring.

  Music

• The painter outlived every contemporary from her student years and spent her last decade explaining their work to strangers.

  Art

• At forty he coached players half his age, having watched the last contemporary of his rookie season retire.

  Basketball

• Every contemporary of the poet who left a diary mentions how quickly he talked and how rarely he finished a sentence.

  Literature

• The philosopher's closest contemporary, born a year later in the same town, reviewed every draft and disputed most of them.

  Philosophy

• A contemporary of the chemist, born the same year, ran the same experiment and published first by a single month.

  Science

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More Academic words

• migrate
• computing
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• tracing
• assessment
• ultimate
• corresponding
• exceeding
• abandoned
• regulated
• symbolic
• scenario