Example sentences for: antiquarian

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

  • "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."

  • The capital is home to many second-hand and antiquarian bookshops, especially on Schlüterstraße and Knesebeckstraße.

  • Unbeknownst to many but historians and other researchers, librarians, older Britishers, those who rummage about among antiquarian books, and other eccentrics are the periodicals published in Great Britain and, to some extent, in America from the seventeenth century onward.

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

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


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