How to Use antiquated in a Sentence

antiquated

adjective
  • He has some pretty antiquated opinions about politics.
  • Such a prospect is one that the city’s antiquated water orthodoxy has never managed to fathom.
    Tom Philp, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The couple liked their home's story-and-a-half scale, but its systems and surfaces were antiquated, Nicholson said.
    Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Sometimes, people are lucky only to encounter a buggy website based on antiquated technology.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Media executives see this limit as antiquated in an age in which many consumers are fleeing traditional television for streaming.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
  • If the current user interface is so antiquated that the finance team is inundated with questions on how to use it, then implement a more user-friendly interface.
    Peter Nesbitt, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Online discourse, unconstrained by politesse, by editorial standards, by antiquated mores, and by boring restraint, is thrilling and heady.
    Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2021
  • And far too many leads fall through the cracks and out of an antiquated funnel.
    Dr. Debbie Qaqish, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • We are stuck in an antiquated system that can't match the two.
    CBS News, 7 May 2023
  • Survivor has been on for 20 years, and good for them for shedding some of the show’s more antiquated leanings.
    Joseph Longo, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The world is just now throwing out its antiquated notions about the sport being a boys club, along with its shoes.
    Ana Escalante, Glamour, 11 Mar. 2022
  • It’s all the more important then that a new stadium is built in place of the much-loved, but antiquated, San Siro.
    Emmet Gates, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • There are people who never write letters and to whom the idea is quaint, even antiquated.
    Francesca Stanfill, Town & Country, 22 June 2023
  • The antiquated notion of work-life balance doesn't work in 2021.
    Harley Finkelstein For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 19 May 2021
  • While the idea of a railroad strike may seem antiquated, the railroads themselves never went away.
    The Editors, National Review, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That building, which was antiquated, was closed about five years ago.
    John Benson, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2021
  • This is a big ask for our schools, many of which are saddled with antiquated tools that are ill-suited for choosing the future of medicine.
    Kelly Dore, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2021
  • LeSarre and others said red tape and the city’s antiquated hiring process have hindered progress.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The small gray box isn’t much to look at, compared to elegant, antiquated books spread out and labeled on tables in the next room.
    Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • Sadly, those antiquated notions no longer have a place in the landscape of big-time college sports.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The killing has already spurred the state to repeal its antiquated citizen’s arrest law and pass a new hate crimes law.
    Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • That fall, two trains derailed in six days at a sequence of antiquated switches.
    Danelle Morton, ProPublica, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Legal experts say the way the state manages this antiquated system is in dire need of reform.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • House Democratic leaders seem to be on the same (if antiquated) page.
    WIRED, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The Church should make an effort to move away from the prevailing antiquated mindset.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • The poor souls are working with a patchwork of antiquated systems.
    Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Kolkata wears its past on its sleeve like few other cities, from its rotund yellow taxis to its antiquated trams.
    New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The outside was so antiquated that prospective teachers sometimes took one look, then peeled out of the parking lot.
    New York Times, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Wisps and waverings of antiquated sounds in transit from the faraway past?
    Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • This antiquated discussion about women’s prowess behind the camera can be summed up with this: Women’s work as cinematographers is comparable to (and in other cases, better than) men’s.
    Stacy L. Smith, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024

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