Example sentences for: archaic

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

  • Other standard English words mislisted as New England words are package store a store selling alcohol by the bottle for consumption elsewhere, pshaw! an exclamation archaic everywhere, sheers sheer curtains, and verandah .

  • How much longer can it be before cars are actually being sold online (instead of through the archaic dealer structure)?

  • A Parisian advertising copywriter has been sentenced to eight years in prison for an ad campaign in which he premeditatedly employed an archaic tense of a verb that appears on the French Cultural Ministry's Index of Officially Proscribed Franglaisms.

  • [archaic]

  • The term taboo in linguistics means, simply, `proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable' [RHD2] , but Jay prefers the narrow, somewhat archaic, anthropologist's definition that focuses on “supernatural” and “ritualistic” interdiction.


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