Example sentences for: archaic

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries.

  • With all the dialects and long-lived speakers of English today, the lexicographer risks inaccuracy in labeling a word, phrase, or sense obsolete or archaic : there is sure to be someone who speaks a form of English in which the expression is extant.


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