Example sentences for: anachronism

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

  • Royko saw himself as more and more of an anachronism.

  • No anachronism here, of course, as cockpit refers, not to a part of an airplane, but to an enclosed place for fighting cocks and, in a transferred sense, to a circular theater.

  • 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.”

  • The chair has become an anachronism, an unpleasant physical reminder that the death penalty involves death . One by one, starting in Texas in 1982, states switched to lethal injection.

  • Murdoch may be a modernist in his pursuit of a global techno-empire, but he's also an anachronism, a throwback to Hearst and Pulitzer.


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