How to Use ancient history in a Sentence
ancient history
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Those defeats are ancient history for a group of players born years later.
—Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2017
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But for most of Sunday’s game, that performance seemed like ancient history.
—Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 17 Sep. 2017
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And all of that Children of the Forest stuff, and the ancient history within that.
—Jennifer Vineyard, Marie Claire, 3 Oct. 2017
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But that seems like ancient history, as does Texas being a national power.
—Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 2 Sep. 2017
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In that way, Michele firmly brought his audience’s focus to a more global view of ancient history.
—Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2017
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Everything from the decor to the organic cuisine to the spa treatments nods to the past—the pleasantest ancient history lesson ever.
—Priscilla Eakeley, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2016
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Knowing how climate change impacted Australia’s mammals thousands of years ago isn’t just ancient history.
—Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
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That’s all ancient history now, though, given that Jackson, Carmelo Anthony and Rose were all swept away during a stormy summer.
—Ben Golliver, SI.com, 11 Oct. 2017
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So the Berlin Wall and the Cold War are ancient history to them.
—Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
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Here’s what to know about the Moon God both in the comics and in ancient history.
—Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 6 Apr. 2022
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And that game is now ancient history — the page now must turn to the 2024 season.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
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As this new book makes clear, the drugs in your first book are ancient history now.
—Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
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The girl followed Groff to the children’s area and asked for a book about ancient history.
—Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 10 May 2024
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Many of the women profiled in the book were not ancient history.
—Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 29 Oct. 2019
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The Huskies led 61-30 at the end of the third quarter, the Bulldogs’ once nine-point lead seeming like ancient history.
—Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2023
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And references to it can be found throughout ancient history, in the works of Homer as well as in the Bible and Quran.
—Joe Minihane, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
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That might be ancient history, but the recent past for the Zips hasn’t been much better.
—Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2022
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The name of El Gerrouj now seems as if from ancient history.
—Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2020
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No one truly knows the ancient history of the Basque people.
—Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2020
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Even the Women’s March of 2017 feels like ancient history right now.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2020
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This teacher of ancient history must come to terms with his own past.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
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Center Ryan Kesler said the events in Game 3 are ancient history.
—Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
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Those in ancient history thought the same and wanted to feel warmth beneath their feet in a temple.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2022
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Why bring up an event that, to younger readers, may seem like ancient history?
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2020
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Those seasons felt almost like ancient history, in part, because the game has just evolved so much in the past 10 years.
—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
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But with Crosby’s memory so close to the surface, all that seemed like the stuff of ancient history.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
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Klimek: Youssef grew up in Cairo, so from a young age he was surrounded by ancient history.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
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This was not ancient history on the screen, but six Octobers ago.
—Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 8 Apr. 2020
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But the dilemma the scientists on this vessel faced had less to do with ancient history than the near future.
—Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2017
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That feels like ancient history, though, in a world where everyone and their corporate subsidiary is looking to draft off the market success of the Steam Deck.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024
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