Example sentences for: antiquarian

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

  • Here you’ll find interesting shops for antiques, collectibles, and antiquarian books.

  • Although publishing itself has declined in importance, one legacy of the industry is the number of bookstores selling second-hand, antiquarian, and new books.

  • Such prose, if not quite antiquarian's dust, is the carbon of something once fiery.

  • "There is a curious antiquarian feeling, in fact, to the whole leering enterprise," says The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane.

  • "He was given two cells, one of which he turned into a library and filled with antiquarian books; he was allowed to practise his flute and paint water-colours; and he was even allowed a knife, to cut the pages of the old books, although in the end he used it to slice off his penis."


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