How to Use antiquarian in a Sentence

antiquarian

1 of 2 noun
  • In a letter to the editor, New York antiquarian Jan Skala announced his ownership of the watch.
    Daniel Miller Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • An antiquarian named William Camden recorded the existence of the ruins in a 1586 treatise.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Physician and antiquarian William Stukeley built England’s first garden hermitage at his home in Grantham in 1727.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • A 1960s Los Angeles high-rise might seem an unlikely spot for a renowned antiquarian, but Lee Stanton proves that plate glass and rare finds can happily coexist.
    Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, ELLE Decor, 23 June 2015
  • By the 16th century cardinals and other antiquarians began to take an interest in the sculpture that occasionally turned up in these plots of land.
    Greg Woolf, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • Then, around 1820, a Philadelphia antiquarian named Alexander Young found Winslow’s account.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
  • There are no fewer than a dozen rival theories advanced by a rich confusion of academics, antiquarians and statesmen who contradict one another and sometimes themselves.
    Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
  • There are no fewer than a dozen rival theories advanced by a rich confusion of academics, antiquarians and statesmen who contradict one another and sometimes themselves.
    Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
  • JF Chen's eponymous Melrose Avenue shop is an antiquarian's paradise, offering museum-quality furniture, lighting, decor, and art.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2018
  • In their enthusiasm to denigrate medieval relics and their custodians, these Anglican antiquarians also dismissed some rational explanations for corporal incorruption.
    Katherine Harvey, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
  • In a letter to the editor, New York antiquarian Jan Skala announced his ownership of the watch.
    Daniel Miller Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • An antiquarian named William Camden recorded the existence of the ruins in a 1586 treatise.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Physician and antiquarian William Stukeley built England’s first garden hermitage at his home in Grantham in 1727.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • A 1960s Los Angeles high-rise might seem an unlikely spot for a renowned antiquarian, but Lee Stanton proves that plate glass and rare finds can happily coexist.
    Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, ELLE Decor, 23 June 2015
  • By the 16th century cardinals and other antiquarians began to take an interest in the sculpture that occasionally turned up in these plots of land.
    Greg Woolf, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • Then, around 1820, a Philadelphia antiquarian named Alexander Young found Winslow’s account.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
  • There are no fewer than a dozen rival theories advanced by a rich confusion of academics, antiquarians and statesmen who contradict one another and sometimes themselves.
    Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
  • There are no fewer than a dozen rival theories advanced by a rich confusion of academics, antiquarians and statesmen who contradict one another and sometimes themselves.
    Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
  • JF Chen's eponymous Melrose Avenue shop is an antiquarian's paradise, offering museum-quality furniture, lighting, decor, and art.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2018
  • In their enthusiasm to denigrate medieval relics and their custodians, these Anglican antiquarians also dismissed some rational explanations for corporal incorruption.
    Katherine Harvey, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
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antiquarian

2 of 2 adjective
  • It is owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and sells a mix of old, new and antiquarian books since 1936.
    Lindsay Silberman, Town & Country, 8 Mar. 2018
  • In 1852, Adie’s grave was exhumed at the direction of the antiquarian Joseph Neil Paton.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Not all the books are antiquarian, though many were printed before 1850.
    Betsy Groban, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Once a week or so, legendary antiquarian and shopkeeper John Rosselli steals away to his home away from home.
    Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Swan, who opened her roughly 1,000-square foot antiquarian shop nearly four years ago at the rear of a building on Locust Street, doesn’t see Amazon as a threat.
    Jennifer Modenessi, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The city will host at least 10, offering hundreds of booths of modern and contemporary art, from blue chip to brand-new, and even a sampling of antiquarian books.
    Will Heinrich, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Big-game hunters can browse the store’s antiquarian titles, and those looking for quantity will be drawn to the eclectic and constantly updated sales rack out front.
    Michael Hingston, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Once again, the show includes Book Alley, a section devoted to antiquarian, art and collectible books.
    Laura Fenton, ELLE Decor, 18 Jan. 2012
  • Big-game hunters can browse the store’s antiquarian titles, while those looking for quantity will be drawn to the eclectic and constantly updated sales rack out front.
    Michael Hingston, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The idea is to give researchers better access to the Dutch cartography, Tom Harper, lead curator of antiquarian maps at the library, tells Meier.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
  • The idea is to give researchers better access to the Dutch cartography, Tom Harper, lead curator of antiquarian maps at the library, tells Meier.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
  • Barnes & Noble closed its Walnut Creek location last year leaving the city with just one antiquarian collectibles book store.
    Jennifer Modenessi, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Bunny remained close to her devoted son Stacy, who for many years owned an antiquarian bookstore in Georgetown and has lived in a separate house on the Upperville farm.
    Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2014
  • Attempts to recreate the building now would amount to a pastiche or replica, not a restoration, and Mackintosh was an innovator, not an antiquarian.
    The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • In addition to Chip and Jo painting the antiquarian island, the couple also finished the Romanesque cabinet by troweling a hard slab of concrete on top.
    Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Stating this bluntly is not a mere matter of antiquarian interest or settling scores.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
  • For McCain’s days right now — and his book — are a plea to Americans to reconsider, and to reclaim, the principles and even the rhetoric that are our ancient heritage and not, to his mind, antiquarian, obsolete banalities.
    David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • Kay and his wife renovated the once-crumbling mansion and, with the help of an antiquarian friend in London, are filling it with period pieces and Nightingale memorabilia.
    Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
  • After a lucky meeting with Cameron Treleaven, an antiquarian bookseller from Calgary, he was sent a whole library of explorers’ accounts.
    The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Nearly 60 years later, a wedding album handwritten by his mother, Margarita Pedroso y Arostegui, has turned up for sale in Miami by an antiquarian.
    Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 3 May 2018
  • What had been a jewel box of antiquarian surprises — an artful display of old books and lithographs, ship models and toy trains, memorabilia and Americana — was now a way station for cardboard, packing tape and bubble wrap.
    Thomas Curwen, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The San Antonio antiquarian bookstore opened in 1967 downtown.
    René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • LaKeith Stanfield, playing a single note with building intensity, stars as Apollo, a dealer in antiquarian books.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
  • And while dramatically increased security at the Vatican may go a long way toward preventing a recurrence here, the case is a window into the shadowy world of antiquarian forgeries.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 15 June 2018
  • The process, known as proroguing, usually passes without much notice, except for the pompous rituals and antiquarian costumes that accompany it.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • All are invited to Huntington Hospital’s boutique and consignment shop, the Huntington Collection for a special sale of vintage, rare, collectible and antiquarian books.
    La Cañada Valley Sun, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Seventy-seven-year-old Harvey Jason may be the only antiquarian bookseller to inspire an action figure.
    Lesley M. M. Blume, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Presiding over all of this is a coterie of characters plucked haphazardly from other periods in Ivrea’s history, parading around in antiquarian costumes.
    Jon Mooallem Andrea Frazzetta, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • All that vanished world of culture and experience is reduced to an elegant grid, as simple as an antiquarian’s catalog, a thought picture that demands calm engagement and imaginative intervention on the viewer’s part.
    Teju Cole, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The fair brings together international exhibitors, including galleries, cultural institutions and antiquarian booksellers to share a wide range of art books.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023

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