Example sentences for: antique

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

  • About five hours later, his supine body was discovered by a secluded Civil War cannon near the Potomac River, a bullet wound through his mouth, his right thumb trapped in the trigger of an antique .38-caliber revolver, gun-shot residue on his hand, and blood oozing from the back of his head.

  • The streets running parallel to Princes Street in the New Town also have shops and boutiques, and there are several antique shops on the Georgian streets north of Queen Street.

  • Alternatively known as the Palazzo Barberini or the National Gallery of Antique Art (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica) (on the Via delle Quattro Fontane), another architectural battleground for arch-rivals Borromini and Bernini, is worth a visit as much for its splendid Baroque décor as for its collection of 13th–17th-century paintings.

  • If the antique royal blue water pitcher is worth $300 to me, I should bid $300, not $250.

  • As a capital city, Edinburgh has its own office for the stamping of gold and silver, with the city’s mark found on many antique pieces.


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