Example sentences for: quaint

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

  • Attempts at updating it have been largely unsatisfactory, for they are marred not only by poor choices for addenda but mainly by the deletion of colorful, interesting, quaint, and charming older entries to make room for the new.

  • Spock's own simplistic Freudian perspective, with its emphasis on childhood Oedipal dramas and the wonders of sublimation, sounds more quaint every year.

  • 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:

  • The Young Visiters lent itself readily to dramatization, except that one loses the special sort of charm inherent in Daisy's quaint spelling.

  • Hogwarts pupils don't buy their textbooks from Amazon.com or a Barnes & Noble superstore but from a quaint old bookshop on Diagon Alley called Flourish and Blotts.


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