Example sentences for: quaintly

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

  • Bach performance in the style of those old Grand Teutons--conductors like Furtwängler, Klemperer, and von Karajan--has fallen out of fashion and favor, and massed Victorian armies raising the rafters as they belt out The Messiah now seem quaintly anachronistic.

  • Maggs is delightfully atmospheric and full of peel-away details, shit-rimmed cobblestones and stinking . The quaintly elaborate names--Percival Clarence Buckle, Mercy Larkin, Sophina Smith--are a lively match for Dickens' Uriah Heeps and Augustus Snodgrasses.

  • Fernandina is exactly the type of town that Celebration would emulate: close, old, quaintly Victorian, rife with sidewalks, history, and pedestrians, and all the forms of old-style American community.

  • And the quaintly elaborate capitalization--Buckle "found his way into ...


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