Example sentences for: quaint

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

  • Night of the Iguana’s biggest star, however, turned out to be the quaint village of Puerto Vallarta.

  • A few quaint stores are hidden down side alleys, as is the 19th-century Locke-Ober (in Winter Place), which has served traditional fare to well-heeled businessmen for over a century.

  • A lot of the power of the paintings to compel astonishment or pathos has leaked away: Max Weber's fantasy painting of a New York department store (1915), once an icon of modernity, now seems quaint.

  • If there's anything odd about the just-announced merger between Viacom and CBS, it's that it seems utterly quaint to worry about whether the concentration of so many cable, radio, network TV, and Internet assets in one company is the best thing for the free flow of information in a democracy.

  • For if there is a deep theme in News of a Kidnapping , it is the same as in some of his other writings: the theme of a narrow, remote provincial life, quaint and familiar (as it feels in the Spanish original), in which the quaintness has somehow blossomed into something horrific.


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