Example sentences for: antique

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  • Other temples of significant interest and variety are Big Bell Temple (Dazhongsi), with China’s leading collection of antique bells; Temple of the White Pagoda (Baitasi), with its newly renovated 13th century Tibetan stupa, China’s largest; Five Pagoda Temple (Wutasi), decorated with Indian-influenced sculptures; and White Clouds Daoist Temple (Baiyuanguan), where Beijingers of all ages crowd in to pray for good fortune at a variety of most unusual shrines.

  • The ancestry of vernacular elements such as these is diverse and includes antique forms of English and slave-trade-era maritime lingua franca, but an African origin for many of them has been persuasively argued for.

  • Live artillery shells, a dead sea turtle half the size of a Volkswagen Bettle, a drowned giraffe, antique crockery, pocketbooks, chemical sludge, raw sewage and about 5,000 cords of driftwood a year--the waters of New York Harbor yield a strage and eclectic bounty.

  • I know the 21st lawyer and have watched horrified as he argued that anyone's 5-year-old deserves a $26,000 antique desk, so I hope he has learned something.

  • The stalls are filled with everything from vintage clothing to the occasional valuable antique.


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