Example sentences for: archaic

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

  • Used for strategic purposes throughout the Mycenaean and Archaic periods the rock was easy to defend; it had a water supply and superb views of the surrounding area.

  • aphthong, a letter having no [archaic] sound.

  • Rooms 18–20 move on through the Archaic period to the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman eras with colossal marble statuary gracing the gallery space here.

  • Hadn't these archaic laws gone out with Bull Connor?

  • I wrote, as I always do, “a historical,” which I consider to be better modern English, though many scholars prefer to retain the archaic “an historical,” just as some preachers retain the obsolete “an holy” and “an house,” which they find in the Bible of 1611.


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