Example sentences for: anachronistic

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

  • In another year they'll be as wan and anachronistic as Ohioans mocking Indianans.

  • The anachronistic colloquial expressions ("bedding down," "a little snow," "shit, man"), the insertion of gratuitous detail ("his TR-6 convertible sports car," "one point four-five million dollars"), and the utterly non-conversational tone ("raised almost a staggering sixty million dollars") all make me suspicious.

  • Consider the absurdly anachronistic flower-power band that visited its old buddy, Dad, in last night's episode, for instance, and how afraid he was that they'd bring marijuana into his home.

  • Buchanan is a kind of fascist fellow traveler, who dabbles in an anachronistic style of populist demagoguery that points to cosmopolitan Jews, and to a lesser extent nonwhite immigrants, as the source of the country's problems.

  • Many News Quiz participants treated the top hat as a self-consciously anachronistic symbol of the rich.


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