"contemporary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mozart's contemporaries and immediate successors used the rute in a similar fashion for military effect.
- Meredith was what my contemporaries used to call na mby-pamby.
- Tifi and his contemporaries clearly intended to satirize the broken Latin used by many doctors, scholars and bureaucrats of their time.
- ("Veiled" is the word most contemporaries used.)
- His contemporaries used to say that Lasker used a "psychological" approach to the game, and even that he sometimes deliberately played inferior moves to confuse opponents.
- "Whimsy" is the term his Edwardian contemporaries used to describe his work, but our current sense of that word is probably too toothless to nail it.
- Because the term 'gothic story' was not commonly used in this period of time, Radcliffe's contemporaries used the term 'romance' to describe her genre.
- It is in the form of a giant bell, which contemporaries used to call a clock.
- Modern historians sometimes call him "Robert the Consul", for that reason, though he himself and his contemporaries did not use that name.
- Though modern scholars to avoid confusion commonly refer to him at this point as Octavian, he called himself "Caesar", which is the name his contemporaries also used.
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