How to Use archaic in a Sentence

archaic

adjective

• The company needs to update its archaic computer systems.
• But even these archaic prospects do not seem meaningless to many.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
• These faux cheerleaders look increasingly archaic when so many women are stepping forward to say enough's enough.
  — Paul Newberry, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• The fight over the legality of the expenditures isn’t merely some archaic dispute about campaign finance laws.
  — Mercury News Editorial, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
• Too many other Latin Americans remain in thrall to populism or archaic versions of socialism.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• By removing Cosmo from it’s check-out line, Walmart is playing into the archaic idea that women are at fault when men behave grossly.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• His explanation of the archaic process of challenging a call on the field possibly topped his quips on Ndamakong Suh involving cash or cachet.
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Breed praised Wiener’s approach, saying the current law, written in the 1960s, is archaic and frustrating.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2018
• Modernizing California's archaic, unstable tax system is one of the most important tasks the next governor will face — or should.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• By the end of the 1920s, aether was discarded, archaic.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• These archaic mindsets need to change and have no place in our sport.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2022
• There are some who have a very archaic line of thinking.
  — Clay Skipper, GQ, 13 Apr. 2018
• That is an archaic structure that may well need to change.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 6 Apr. 2021
• Sure, the whole concept of spring-cleaning feels quaint and archaic just now.
  — refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2020
• Your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions.
  — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 16 Mar. 2015
• Here's hoping Markle's speech ends that archaic rule once and for all.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 29 Jan. 2018
• The idea of being chained to a cubicle for eight-plus hours a day, five days a week now looks archaic.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• But should a set of archaic rules also be used to take Britain out of the European Union?
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2016
• That, of course, was because of the Yankees’ archaic rules that don’t allow beards or hair that goes over the collar.
  — Andy Nesbitt, For The Win, 19 Dec. 2019
• The sale had been driven by the archaic system by which Oregon holds the state forest.
  — Rob Davis | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 9 May 2017
• The result is a both an honest portrait of the victim and those who loved her, as well as the cryptic, archaic world of academia.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2020
• The result is an honest portrait of both the victim and those who loved her, as well as the cryptic, archaic world of academia.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2020
• From the archaic language to the specialized jargon, most of us need lawyers just to translate the words of other lawyers.
  — Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• The Gold State Coach is a majestic and archaic object that’s belonged to the monarchy for over 260 years.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 June 2022
• Maybe in 100 years’ time, the thought of resisting iris scans or face-tracking will seem archaic.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• Owing to the archaic laws of primogeniture, Anne, who is now 72, has tumbled to 16th in line to the throne.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023
• Those who have not encountered it tend to imagine it’s the stuff of archaic English pub signs.
  — Henry Hitchings, WSJ, 8 May 2022
• Faced with no solutions, entrepreneurs will feel pressure to change things even faster, or to get rid of the rules that are not archaic.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• To call her a socialite is archaic at best, the designer said tartly.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• The story provides examples of both how to do it and how not to do it when existing rules are archaic and slow to change.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 11 July 2022

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024