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Example sentences for: ancient

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

It killed the ancient Romans -- and now it's killing me.
The words of a nation's speech are continually clipped and worn down by constant currency, until, like ancient coins, the legend which they bore at first becomes effaced.
They don't hanker for the old family order or want to put women back in ancient strictures, but neither do they endorse the left's "anything goes" morality.
Her celebrity image is both frivolous and terrifying: Imagine the souls of Fran Lebowitz and Yogi Berra mingling in a woman who looked like an ancient statue, with a huge, flat face and dark little dots for eyes.
For the Ancient Egyptians, Aswan was the place where the yearly flood of the Nile began.