How to Use anachronism in a Sentence

anachronism

noun

• The novel is full of anachronisms.
• He's an old-fashioned politician who is seen by many of his colleagues as an anachronism.
• Now the Kings couldn’t get there, and so were an anachronism.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 10 Apr. 2017
• And that beloved anachronism is one that might yet show the way for the future.
  — Marcel Krueger, CNN, 16 May 2022
• In just three years, the group has become an anachronism.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• One columnist even called Perkins an anachronism stuck in the wrong age.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 9 Dec. 2020
• The Corvette is seen too often as an anachronism or a sad totem of mid-life crises.
  — Dan Carney, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2020
• There are the truly strange anachronisms throughout the movie.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2017
• Like a few of us, Coburn, who died last month in Chicago at age 81, was an anachronism.
  — Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022
• DeRozan is something of an anachronism in the modern NBA.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 20 Oct. 2019
• The play is full of anachronisms, including that touch-tone phone.
  — Patti Hartigan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2019
• An anachronism, but laughter follows at the mention of the short-lived 1993 dance craze.
  — Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2019
• Yet Wells herself might be an anachronism in the present landscape.
  — Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2022
• By the 1990s, the idea of a liberalism that built stuff had become an anachronism.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
• That’s why screens and credit cards are anachronisms, and should not be put into law in the modern era.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• For many, Glut’s bulk bins went from a charming anachronism to a lifeline.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2021
• What’s more, the station hasn’t solved the most glaring Penn Station anachronism.
  — Richard Zoglin, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• To its credit, the adaptation seems aware of this anachronism.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2018
• In this respect, too, Heavy is something of an anachronism.
  — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 15 Mar. 2017
• Although railroads and trucks had made the log drive an anachronism by 1949, when this story first ran, the method was still used.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
• The winter meetings are something of an anachronism in the smartphone era.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
• Pearl Jam, at that time, was feeling a little bit like an anachronism.
  — Gen Handley, SPIN, 27 Sep. 2022
• These by-elections are a modern quirk in a place of more ancient anachronisms.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• The Favourite, for all its prestige costume drama bonafides, loves a good anachronism.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2019
• One of the most audacious aspects of Walker is the presence of anachronisms.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
• As a form of government, the British monarchy is a ridiculous anachronism.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
• Maybe that's why, 89 years later, what was once common place seems now like an anachronism.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2016
• Hiring out goats may seem like an anachronism in the 21st Century.
  — Orange County Register, 6 Mar. 2017
• Meanwhile, to people who are new to Alaska, the disease may seem like an anachronism.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
• The current culture of our science system is an anachronism in today’s world and must change with the times.
  — Gilda Barabino, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024