How to Use antiquity in a Sentence

antiquity

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  • 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
  • Some Turkish pilots like to trace their lineage to antiquity.
    — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Two pieces of the smooth black marble slab are on display in a small museum alongside vases and statue fragments from antiquity.
    — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • This was a first for Phillips, 80, who’s collected antiquities for half a century.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In just a few pages, the town rises up in all its picturesque antiquity with a web of economic and social tensions thrumming beneath the surface.
    — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Daphne Nikolopoulos will explore myths today and in antiquity that share man’s need to illuminate our role in the universe.
    — Mary Lou Cruz, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Charles Townley, one of Britain’s first great collectors of antiquities, was born in Lancashire in 1737.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • Like any new technology, aquatint, in its earliest days, embraced an idealism, found in prints depicting fantasies of classical antiquity.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Madrid may not have the sheer beauty of Paris or the antiquity of Athens or Rome.
    — Town & Country, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Crete was once the seat of the Minoan civilization, which flourished in antiquity from its olive oil trade.
    — Richard Stenger, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
  • These practices are considered today by many as the height of the decadence of antiquity.
    — WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • In antiquity, the book was known by the Greek title Ta eis heauton or Addresses to Himself.
    — Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • The Origins of Griffin Mythology Griffins appeared in antiquity with the heads, torsos, talons, and wings of eagles and the legs and tails of lions.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The men agreed that the room needed a feel of antiquity, which required a painting process as elaborate as the finished product.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Many centuries ago, chroniclers conjured what was in antiquity called Ethiopia as a realm at the heart of global trade.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Haggis is an ancient dish whose roots date back to antiquity.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • In the last couple of movies, Steven Spielberg had to figure out how to make films about an antiquities professor that didn’t seem moldy in themselves.
    — Dan Lybarger, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2023
  • The antiquity of Rome, and its millennia as a seat of power, have made the city an ideal place for recycling beauty.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The next step would be to seek information from current and former owners of the antiquity.
    — Nicole Sadek, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Survey Greek urns or Roman frescoes and the answer is clear—throughout antiquity, men went swimming in the nude.
    — Todd Plummer, WSJ, 29 June 2022
  • Layers of antiquity built up through a 21st-century enterprise—Bologna never stops feeling fascinating.
    — Kelsy Chauvin, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Nov. 2023

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