Words similar to antiquity

Example sentences for: antiquity

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

We were interrupted by the arrival of a worker clad in a boiler suit of some antiquity.
Victorian fashion, for example, wholly redeemed, is often treated with great respect in movies such as The Portrait of a Lady . The high hair and big bustles have been assimilated to all the other harmless customs of antiquity; they've become the equivalent of Egyptian breastplates and Elizabethan padding.
Taxonomic treatments for Artemisia over the past 50 years range from maintaining a single, large genus of over 500 species [ 32 33 34 35 36 37 ] to the recognition of six to eight genera from within its taxonomic boundaries [ 2 38 39 ] . Artemisia of antiquity was divided into three genera ( Artemisia, Absinthium, and Abrotanum ) by Tournefort [ 40 ] . However, the concept of a more inclusive genus was resurrected by Linnaeus [ 41 ] , hereinafter, referred to as Artemisia s.l . Besser [ 42 ] and de Candolle [ 43 ] recognized four sections within Artemisia s.l.
Groovy 's staying power--it has maintained its meaning and its presence for more than six decades--points up the robustness, and even the relative antiquity, of much of what seems like linguistic ephemera.
I say “in part” because the original covered the literature, folklore, and culture of Britain from antiquity.