How to Use ancient history in a Sentence

ancient history

noun

• So the Berlin Wall and the Cold War are ancient history to them.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
• Here’s what to know about the Moon God both in the comics and in ancient history.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 6 Apr. 2022
• And that game is now ancient history — the page now must turn to the 2024 season.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
• As this new book makes clear, the drugs in your first book are ancient history now.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• The girl followed Groff to the children’s area and asked for a book about ancient history.
  — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 10 May 2024
• And all of that Children of the Forest stuff, and the ancient history within that.
  — Jennifer Vineyard, Marie Claire, 3 Oct. 2017
• Many of the women profiled in the book were not ancient history.
  — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• The Huskies led 61-30 at the end of the third quarter, the Bulldogs’ once nine-point lead seeming like ancient history.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2023
• And references to it can be found throughout ancient history, in the works of Homer as well as in the Bible and Quran.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
• That might be ancient history, but the recent past for the Zips hasn’t been much better.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2022
• The name of El Gerrouj now seems as if from ancient history.
  — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2020
• No one truly knows the ancient history of the Basque people.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2020
• Even the Women’s March of 2017 feels like ancient history right now.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2020
• This teacher of ancient history must come to terms with his own past.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
• Center Ryan Kesler said the events in Game 3 are ancient history.
  — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Those in ancient history thought the same and wanted to feel warmth beneath their feet in a temple.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2022
• Why bring up an event that, to younger readers, may seem like ancient history?
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2020
• Those seasons felt almost like ancient history, in part, because the game has just evolved so much in the past 10 years.
  — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
• But with Crosby’s memory so close to the surface, all that seemed like the stuff of ancient history.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Klimek: Youssef grew up in Cairo, so from a young age he was surrounded by ancient history.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• This was not ancient history on the screen, but six Octobers ago.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 8 Apr. 2020
• But the dilemma the scientists on this vessel faced had less to do with ancient history than the near future.
  — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2017
• But the Herodotean influence on how the region’s ancient history is taught and perceived in the West remain.
  — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
• Hey, the memory can play tricks, and that’s ancient history.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• That feels like ancient history at this point, but Lau’s blog, Style Bubble, was already six years old by then.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2019
• The year of Our Lord 1972 is not exactly ancient history.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 13 Jan. 2020
• But that felt like ancient history now after the losses to Arizona and Colorado and Utah.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• Seaver’s Hall of Fame statistics take their place in ancient history, as well.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• The experience weaves together the thrill of being on foot in a Big Five reserve with an introduction to the Karoo's ancient history.
  — Jim Dobson, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
• The cast of characters and a smattering of Latin words and phrases imbue this futuristic setting with conflicts and myths borrowed from ancient history.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024