Sample Sentences for
archaic
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    The art historian George Ortiz was once asked by Ernst Langlotz, one of the world's foremost experts on archaic sculpture, whether he wanted to purchase a bronze statuette.  (source)
    archaic = so extremely old as to belong to an earlier period
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    As you ventured deeper into the museum, the games grew older and more archaic.†  (source)
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    Even the archaic form of communication known as e-mail is strangely unreliable.†  (source)
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    Their guns—some were rifles, other pistols—looked ....archaic, rustic.†  (source)
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    Their society was archaically and delightfully Prussian, militaristic to a fault, arrogant in their economic pretensions, xenophobic to the point of happily enlisting to wipe out the "Ouster Menace."†  (source)
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    On Luna, we consider monogamy to be nothing more than archaic sentimentality.†  (source)
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    Though the whole thing should be archaic and wrong, it worked.†  (source)
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    I should know better than to use such an archaic, inaccurate term.†  (source)
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    Desktops encourage the use of paper, which is archaic and reflects inadequate team spirit.†  (source)
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    It seemed archaic somehow, but I had seen it somewhere.†  (source)
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    This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use.†  (source)
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    They say it plays absolutely no role in our emotions and that its use as a symbol for love is based on archaic theories of it being the seat of the soul or something ridiculous like that.†  (source)
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    He punctuated his speech with little "hah"s and "hum"s and archaic expressions, on top of which his penchant for modern slang teetered precariously.†  (source)
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