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
  • One columnist even called Perkins an anachronism stuck in the wrong age.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The play is full of anachronisms, including that touch-tone phone.
    — Patti Hartigan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2019
  • There are the truly strange anachronisms throughout the movie.
    — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2017
  • And the bizarre song and dance numbers, for all their anachronism, pull us in further.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The Corvette is seen too often as an anachronism or a sad totem of mid-life crises.
    — Dan Carney, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2020
  • These by-elections are a modern quirk in a place of more ancient anachronisms.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • Yet Wells herself might be an anachronism in the present landscape.
    — Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Pearl Jam, at that time, was feeling a little bit like an anachronism.
    — Gen Handley, SPIN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • For many, Glut’s bulk bins went from a charming anachronism to a lifeline.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2021
  • All this bold, heady arena-rock anachronism makes an intuitive kind of sense.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • If the refugee problem had dwindled, this anachronism would not matter.
    — Alexander Betts, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2015
  • To its credit, the adaptation seems aware of this anachronism.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Shinedown is something of an anachronism.
    — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Maybe that's why, 89 years later, what was once common place seems now like an anachronism.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2016
  • But then there are the wincing anachronisms, like an unspoken shame over a gay uncle.
    — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 29 July 2024
  • Martuni’s is a piano bar — a genre in decline, just short of an anachronism.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The winter meetings are something of an anachronism in the smartphone era.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • And the anachronism is only one of the island’s unique properties.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • Sweetings is a happy anachronism.
    — Cass Farrar, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Favourite, for all its prestige costume drama bonafides, loves a good anachronism.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2019
  • Zahra is much too good a historian not to consider the risks of anachronism.
    — Mark Mazower, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 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
  • Like a few of us, Coburn, who died last month in Chicago at age 81, was an anachronism.
    — Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, to people who are new to Alaska, the disease may seem like an anachronism.
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • As a form of government, the British monarchy is a ridiculous anachronism.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2022

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