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Example sentences for: quaint

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The trip, through some gorgeous mountain country, is a favorite of train enthusiasts who are drawn to Datong to see the quaint steam locomotives still at work in the center of China’s richest coal-mining region.
There is no denying that the English language, quite apart from its utilitarian purposes, holds an odd, almost quaint fascination for many foreign speakers.
Some of the quaint thatched white houses that run along Pisky sétány have been converted into an Ethnography Museum (similar to the one at Szentendre, see page 64, but on a much smaller scale).
Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only intercourse.
The monumental Oxford English Dictionary [ OED ], now in its second edition and filling 20 vast volumes, contains many extremely quaint definitions that were written a hundred years ago or more and remain unrevised: