They were however never free public libraries in the modern sense.

However, it was clearly not, in the modern sense, a town.

The word is recorded in its modern sense only since 1973.

It had no police in any modern sense of the word.

It does not have the meaning of a country in the modern sense.

Literature in the modern sense had no category of its own.

I had no home in the modern sense of the term.

The two new baseball managers in town also have a modern sense of community.

Islam was another culture that developed a school system in the modern sense of the word.

It was not used in the modern scientific sense until around 1600.