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 state derives much of its revenue from an anachronistic personal-property tax, which has evolved into a tax mainly on automobile ownership.

  • Slobs--is as false and anachronistic as the small town in a Capra movie.

  • 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.

  • Oscar is credited with having introduced the use of English muffins to the recipe in 1894, which I find somewhat anachronistic as they (being neither English nor muffins) did not exist before the mid 1920s.


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