Example sentences for: archaisms

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

  • But these words are archaisms, obsolete words that are used for special effect or other reasons, as in popular quotations, like wherefore in “Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

  • (One might also observe that, despite inflation, other American telephonic archaisms persist in the culture, like, I put a nickel in the telephone to dial my baby's number, It's your nickel, etc.

  • One significant element of airline language, including many of its archaisms, derives from the nautical terminology that the pioneers of air travel appropriated--not unnaturally, given the obvious parallels between the two modes of transportation (fragile means of conveyance, built to negotiate a boundless, often turbulent medium of fluid or gas).

  • The King James Bible, which contains many such archaisms, has preserved them for modern English; wherefore more commonly appears in the tautology whys and wherefores .


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