How to Use antiquity in a Sentence

antiquity

noun

• The town dates from antiquity.
• A palace stood here in antiquity.
• Madrid may not have the sheer beauty of Paris or the antiquity of Athens or Rome.
  — Town & Country, 14 Dec. 2022
• Aswan is a city that dates from antiquity about 425 miles up the Nile from Cairo.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2020
• As of late antiquity, Europeans still lived in tribes, like most of the rest of the world.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2020
• The roots of the present-day anti-Semitic motif go through the Middle Ages and all the way back to antiquity.
  — John-Paul Pagano, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019
• What makes the French of today the same as the French of the seventeenth century or the Gauls of antiquity?
  — Rachel Poser, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Some of the trippiest works in the SAAM show date from antiquity.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
• And none of this means that the modern Maltese or any other modern breed is the same as the dogs of antiquity.
  — New York Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• The thief pulled up to an antiquities gallery on La Cienega Boulevard with a clear plan.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• How did an artifact of antiquity make it to the vestibule of a hotel?
  — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2023
• Ennos points out that the largest ship in the world in 1514, the Henry Grace à Dieu in the English king’s fleet, was no larger than the great ships of antiquity.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• Her book is equally sprawling in terms of time, moving back and forth across the centuries, from antiquity to the present.
  — Howard W. French, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• Meet and shop from skilled artisans and merchants who have searched the world for unique gems, beads and antiquities.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Artists have copied and quoted the masterpieces of the past since antiquity.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
• The Ministry of Culture, which absorbed the Ministry of Tourism and antiquities in 2015, is still cash-strapped.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 4 Sep. 2019
• But keep in mind, trans identities have been with us since the antiquities.
  — CBS News, 23 July 2023
• One thing is for certain: Texas is now, thanks to the world’s newest naval ram, the newest naval power of antiquity.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2023
• The legacy of the great and rich period that was antiquity has lain dormant in us for centuries.
  — WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• Some of the priests had lineages reaching back 1,000 years, evidence that the religion of antiquity and the present were linked.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2021
• The story seems to have been a source of embarrassment to Jews and Christians in antiquity and even in more recent times.
  — David Lincicum, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2021
• The tasty visual belongs to a genre of images, known as Xenia in antiquity.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• The five chunks of brown coal, each no bigger than a matchbox, add further evidence of the port’s antiquity.
  — J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• One was a fragment of what had in antiquity been a much larger cameo of a female figure in profile.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• The Met houses more than 2 million works of art that span from classical antiquity to pieces made within the last few years.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2021
• By the standards of antiquity, this was a bona fide miracle.
  — Edward Watts, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
• In antiquity its six million mud bricks were covered with sheets of iron and lead and inlaid with crystals.
  — Leon McCarron, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• Crete was once the seat of the Minoan civilization, which flourished in antiquity from its olive oil trade.
  — Richard Stenger, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• The Museum’s permanent collection spans more than 5,000 years, from antiquity to the present, making the institution one of the best art museums in the American South.
  — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• Dating back to classical antiquity, the idea that a soothsayer can tell something about a person’s health, disposition, or destiny from the lines on their palm has long fascinated seers and scientists alike.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024