"contemporary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At her baptismal ceremony, contemporaries wrote that Charles, despite his best efforts, appeared upset at the child's gender.
- As contemporaries wrote, "a half of the city's population joined his funeral procession".
- She sings what her contemporaries write; she doesn't just lay vocal laurels on the graves of the worthy dead.
- My literary ancestors and contemporaries have written many beautiful lines on the kinds of moods that were appearing in each part of the story.
- Harington's contemporaries wrote of him in the highest terms.
- While other contemporaries wrote poems that protested against national life under Salazar, O'Neill's attack ran deeper.
- (A few scholars have argued that contemporaries like Francis Bacon wrote plays attributed to Shakespeare, but this notion is generally discredited.)
- Some contemporaries had written that it was considered unlucky to speak of Rahon by its proper name, in the morning, when fasting.
- Some contemporary Biblical scholars have challenged this view: few today believe that contemporaries of Jesus actually wrote the New Testament gospels.
- The smallest of connections is interesting, once you get over the shock that your approximate contemporaries are writing their memoirs.
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