Contemporaries is an English word with synonyms like generation or people. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Contemporaries in a sentence
Contemporaries meaning
plural of contemporary
Synonyms of Contemporaries
Using Contemporaries
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of contemporary
- Useful related words include: coevals, generation, people.
- In the example corpus, contemporaries often appears in combinations such as: his contemporaries, their contemporaries, her contemporaries.
Context around Contemporaries
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Contemporaries
- In this selection, "contemporaries" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, born, near, amid, eric, mindful and slide stand out and add context to how "contemporaries" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include american born contemporaries and near and and near contemporaries eric hoffer. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "contemporaries" sits close to words such as antics, commuter and cosmetics, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with contemporaries
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Not many of your contemporaries are that privileged. (8 words)
These contemporaries also think about shopping differently than older consumers do. (11 words)
The film has been more tepidly received than many other of its superhero contemporaries. (14 words)
Many of Barnes’ contemporaries regarded him as hopelessly old fashioned, with his love of old ways, old words, and old customs; but now we have cause to be thankful that he captured the sound of the Dorset speech in such an artistic and imaginative way. (45 words)
Lagos State Government said that it has identified the need to tailor its employment and wealth creation initiatives to meet present-day realities that would place the youth population at par with their contemporaries across the globe. (37 words)
Is the final Ford Focus in for a fitting send off almost 30 years in the making, or will it, like its millennial contemporaries, slide into irrelevance alongside its Gen X and Baby Boomer forebears? (35 words)
Is the final Ford Focus in for a fitting send off almost 30 years in the making, or will it, like its millennial contemporaries, slide into irrelevance alongside its Gen X and Baby Boomer forebears? (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Their American-born contemporaries and near-contemporaries — Eric Hoffer, J.K. Galbraith, Richard Hofstadter, Christopher Lasch — have no real equivalents today.
According to him, some of the reasons why doctors left the country are due to poor remuneration, security challenges, job satisfaction, furthering their training to enable them compete with their contemporaries in other climes.
And unlike its contemporaries, it allows controller inputs and can even be played on Steam Deck, granted that players use the GZDoom version.
He is always in conversation with his forebears and contemporaries, mindful that literature is a giant web and his own work has a long ancestry and living relatives.
He later found himself immersed in the Canadian and American folk scene, amid contemporaries like Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.
Hopefully, whatever it is that Greenworld is hoping to get out of helping to prevent another apocalypse won't be worse than what either of its contemporaries are planning.
If you are looking for a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-based phone primarily for gaming, we suggest the iQOO 11 over its contemporaries.
I must also add other distinguished old boys who were contemporaries of the first set earlier mentioned or immediately following them.
In all, the exhibition includes 40 of Hogarth's works, as well as those of some of his contemporaries.
Is the final Ford Focus in for a fitting send off almost 30 years in the making, or will it, like its millennial contemporaries, slide into irrelevance alongside its Gen X and Baby Boomer forebears?
Kalu said that the businessman had consistently mentored his contemporaries and the younger generation in business and leadership.
Lagos State Government said that it has identified the need to tailor its employment and wealth creation initiatives to meet present-day realities that would place the youth population at par with their contemporaries across the globe.
Like many of his Marleyan contemporaries, Gross has grown jaded to the threat of Titans.
Many of Barnes’ contemporaries regarded him as hopelessly old fashioned, with his love of old ways, old words, and old customs; but now we have cause to be thankful that he captured the sound of the Dorset speech in such an artistic and imaginative way.
More than most of his contemporaries, he manages to be both lustful and self-aware about his own lust.
Not many of your contemporaries are that privileged.
That says something considering its top-tier animated contemporaries, with the central theme of the “found family” heartwarming and the humor that arises from the unlikely group landing.
The 23-year-old is something of a late bloomer compared to many of his contemporaries in the sport.
The film has been more tepidly received than many other of its superhero contemporaries.
These contemporaries also think about shopping differently than older consumers do.
Common combinations with contemporaries
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his contemporaries 67×
- their contemporaries 13×
- her contemporaries 13×
- contemporaries in 10×
- its contemporaries 10×
- contemporaries of 10×
- contemporaries and 9×
- contemporaries like 9×
- contemporaries are 7×
- contemporaries the 7×