How to Use antiquity in a Sentence

antiquity

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  • 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
  • It was found at the bottom of a 30ft pit, in a tomb that had been ransacked and robbed in antiquity.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
  • 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 first step is to apply the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 to dealers of art and antiquities.
    — William G. Rich, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • Yet the assault on its antiquity in recent times has been fierce.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • The tiara has its roots in classical antiquity and was seen as an emblem of the loss of innocence to the crowning of love.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 25 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • His house is a labyrinth of small rooms filled with his collections of ancient antiquities and British art.
    — Emily Selter, Town & Country, 7 Aug. 2018
  • The artform, like so many relics of antiquity, is now in a museum.
    — Margaret Andersen, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The legacy of the great and rich period that was antiquity has lain dormant in us for centuries.
    — WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Above, in the shallow waters of the sea, oyster beds have yielded pearls since antiquity.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • 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
  • This echoed the norms of antiquity; the historian Paul Veyne has noted that in ancient Rome, for example, the belief was widespread that any defects in civic life directly reflected on the virtues of the city’s elite.
    — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • But a new exhibit lays out an uncomfortable truth for the storied museum: Some of its collection was looted and sold on the illicit antiquities market with the help of a Colorado art scholar.
    — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2025

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