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 .

  • Law language, it is generally agreed among lay people (with a few eccentric lawyers concurring), is verbose, pompous, archaic, and obscure.

  • Yet they waited, Stubborn and shy, as if they had been sent By an old command to find our whereabouts And that long-lost archaic companionship.

  • As it happens, many wonderful terms for empty or hypocritical talk are by now quaint and archaic ( humbuggery , Pharisaism , Tartuffery ), and some of the most common terms are simply vulgar ( bullshit ).

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


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