How to Use antiquated in a Sentence
antiquated
adjective- He has some pretty antiquated opinions about politics.
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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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