Example sentences for: archaic

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

  • As used here, the meaning of without outside is archaic, as in the well-known stage line, The carriage awaits without.

  • After the 1940s, groovy went dormant for a time; reference books begin to refer to it as "archaic" or "obsolete."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Around 3000 b.c. , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.


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