Example sentences for: anachronism

How can you use “anachronism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For if, when people turn around to look afresh at this strange anachronism called the Conservative Party, they find it where Labour wants it to be--clinging to Thatcher's skirts on the far Right--they will simply turn straight back to Labour."

  • The reference to battleship is an anachronism.

  • This action altered the perception that San Juan was a citadel city — already an anachronism at the time — and plans were drawn up to develop the area immediately east of the city, an area that became known as Puerta de Tierra or “gateway to the land.”

  • Words which through their coinage reflect the utilization of the land give some measure of the environmental impact --if I may use an anachronism.

  • But without a steady drumbeat of public engagement--through marches, debates, C-SPAN, the works--the labor movement will continue to smell of anachronism.


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