ANCIENT in a Sentence
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270 example sentences for ANCIENT, such as:
1. Custom without reason is but ancient error.
2. The ancient Aztec culture has all perished now.
3. Ludo is a version of an ancient Indian racing game.
4. According to ancient legend, the river is a goddess.
5. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the.
2. The ancient Aztec culture has all perished now.
3. Ludo is a version of an ancient Indian racing game.
4. According to ancient legend, the river is a goddess.
5. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ANCIENT
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ancient
a. belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
n. a very old person
Classic Sentence: (208 in 14 pages)
1 The kingdom we now inhabit is the ancient country of the Incas, who quitted it very imprudently to conquer another part of the world, and were at length destroyed by the Spaniards.
2 One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
3 Before becoming a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the Bourgeois.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
4 They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace.
5 also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
6 They really are a very ancient Norman family of the.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
7 His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass.
8 Those rare dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the ancient sacred euphony.
9 The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajae is one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters felt it with the double force contributed by religion.
10 The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the porch, and entered the courtyard.
11 That volley of grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you enter Genappe.
12 It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans.
13 His sliding motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him to resemble those twilight larvae which haunt ruins, and which ancient Norman legends call the Alleurs.
14 Madeleine, had, thanks to the new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
15 Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man.
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1 The only access to that ancient castle is along a muddy track.
2 According to ancient legend, the river is a goddess.
3 In ancient times the messages were relayed from one place to another.
4 Professor Jones is a recognized authority on ancient Egypt.
5 Ludo is a version of an ancient Indian racing game.
6 Cracks and fractures are appearing in the ancient wall.
7 This old Silk Road linked China with the West in ancient times.
8 Custom without reason is but ancient error.
9 This book acquaints the students with the ancient cultures of Europe.
10 He was an expert on ancient Chinese astronomical literature.
11 This palace is an example of early ancient Chinese architecture.
12 The ancient way to settle a quarrel was to choose a leader from each side and let them fight it out.
13 His collection of ancient pottery is turning one hundred pieces.
14 He was one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Indian culture.
15 The ancient Aztec culture has all perished now.