How to Use archaic in a Sentence

archaic

adjective
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  • The company needs to update its archaic computer systems.
  • 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
  • But in a matter of five years, a lawsuit, a new president, and an archaic legal system would rob them of all of it.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Lockers are among the most iconic and archaic elements of high school life.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2017
  • The problem is the core systems are old, archaic technologies.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • There are people that are still archaic in their thinking.
    — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2019
  • While the practice known as privateering is archaic, the idea has come up in recent decades.
    — Timothy Bella and Amy Cheng, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The archaic belief that the earth is flat and not a globe, as centuries of research have determined, may seem like a silly and fringe belief.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Trapping is not an archaic enterprise that is destined for the scrap heap.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Fights broke out now and then as people tried to rejigger the archaic network of pipes to their advantage.
    — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 4 June 2018

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