How to Use antiquity in a Sentence

antiquity

noun

• The town dates from antiquity.
• A palace stood here in antiquity.
• Above, in the shallow waters of the sea, oyster beds have yielded pearls since antiquity.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Egypt has drastically stepped up efforts in recent years to stop the trafficking of its antiquities.
  — Fox News, 7 June 2018
• This latest project draws more inspiration from today’s protest movements than from Greek antiquity.
  — Philip Brandes, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• Some of the old keyboard slider phones of antiquity held up pretty well after years of usage, so this isn't an impossible task, but those phones didn't have a motor to deal with.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 June 2018
• Somehow the site’s breathtaking antiquity had, all this time, succeeded in blinding me to its host country’s youth, its essential fragility.
  — Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
• Mount of Apollo Found beneath the ring finger, the Mount of Apollo derives its name from the sun god of classical antiquity.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 4 June 2018
• Madrid may not have the sheer beauty of Paris or the antiquity of Athens or Rome.
  — Town & Country, 14 Dec. 2022
• Aswan is a city that dates from antiquity about 425 miles up the Nile from Cairo.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2020
• As of late antiquity, Europeans still lived in tribes, like most of the rest of the world.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2020
• The roots of the present-day anti-Semitic motif go through the Middle Ages and all the way back to antiquity.
  — John-Paul Pagano, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019
• What makes the French of today the same as the French of the seventeenth century or the Gauls of antiquity?
  — Rachel Poser, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Some of the trippiest works in the SAAM show date from antiquity.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
• And none of this means that the modern Maltese or any other modern breed is the same as the dogs of antiquity.
  — New York Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• The first step is to apply the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 to dealers of art and antiquities.
  — William G. Rich, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• 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
• Ennos points out that the largest ship in the world in 1514, the Henry Grace à Dieu in the English king’s fleet, was no larger than the great ships of antiquity.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• Her book is equally sprawling in terms of time, moving back and forth across the centuries, from antiquity to the present.
  — Howard W. French, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• 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
• Artists have copied and quoted the masterpieces of the past since antiquity.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
• The Ministry of Culture, which absorbed the Ministry of Tourism and antiquities in 2015, is still cash-strapped.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 4 Sep. 2019
• But keep in mind, trans identities have been with us since the antiquities.
  — CBS News, 23 July 2023
• Yet the assault on its antiquity in recent times has been fierce.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• 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
• His house is a labyrinth of small rooms filled with his collections of ancient antiquities and British art.
  — Emily Selter, Town & Country, 7 Aug. 2018
• The legacy of the great and rich period that was antiquity has lain dormant in us for centuries.
  — WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• Some of the priests had lineages reaching back 1,000 years, evidence that the religion of antiquity and the present were linked.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2021
• The desire to know more about the future may be almost universally human, but the ability to divine what lies ahead was certainly not universal, at least in antiquity.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025