How to Use archaic in a Sentence

archaic

adjective

• The company needs to update its archaic computer systems.
• The old banks’ tech is archaic, based in coding languages that today’s university grads have never studied.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
• The successful application of the archaic statute in the 2003 ferry case may have helped revive it.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2019
• But the ancestors of today's birds—members of the neornithine lineage—were mere bit players compared with archaic birds such as the enantiornithines, which ruled the roost.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2019
• Denisovans not only interbred with Neanderthals, but with archaic Eurasian humans as well.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
• Vets challenge archaic stereotypes about cannabis users being apathetic and undisciplined.
  — Socrates Rosenfeld, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2019
• These are not some archaic, outdated settlements of legal disputes whose relevance has long-since dissipated.
  — Ed Christman, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2019
• The Denisovans are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans that roamed in areas that include modern-day Russia and China.
  — Fox News, 5 Sep. 2019
• Easier hiring-and-firing norms – and not mere consolidation of archaic labor laws – will boost employment in more productive large firms that can pay better.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
• But compared with London, her niece, her learning is scriptural, almost archaic, the product of a girl’s traditional confinement.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• But the oversize golden egg on a series of gold plates did seem archaic — and not just because the French Laundry has used this presentation, for various dishes, for years.
  — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The characters speak in archaic phrases and words, mixing shards of Shakespeare, Ovid, and at one point straight-up Latin.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 May 2024
• The place had been inaugurated just after the First World War, but the state of gentle disrepair gave the impression of far more archaic origins.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024