How to Use antiquate in a Sentence

antiquate

verb
  • Roads aren’t the only things that are rutted, corrupted and antiquated.
    — Matthew Cooper, Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Over the course of the decades, backstage came to be a hodgepodge of what had been regarded as improvements in their day but were now antiquated.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2018
  • And because these vehicles are all antiques, their safety specs are antiquated too.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Some of it doesn’t, and some of it strikes different people as antiquated at best, pernicious, retrograde or toxic at worst.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • After seven years of war, infrastructure is broken down and antiquated, there is no investment in the fields and the fight over control of oil resources is far from over.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • Sitharaman is only the second woman in the role in 35 years and now faces the task of modernizing one of the world’s largest, if antiquated, militaries.
    — Daniel Ten Kate, Bloomberg.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Time or Life or the Saturday Evening Post—was becoming antiquated.
    — Sam Tanenhaus, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
  • Its budgets are slimmer and the equipment sometimes antiquated, and its fighters are often pitched into terrible conditions.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
  • With each release of a new version, Apple makes its previous technology antiquated in mere seconds, thus shaming many of us to upgrade.
    — Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, Time, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Almost two-thirds in the survey think that today's 9-to-5 workday is antiquated and 88 percent of them think that the day's start and end times should be more flexible.
    — Gene Marks, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The original vision of a digital archive of all knowledge renounced paper volumes; physical books were seen as antiquated, like papyrus or clay tablets.
    — Gary Wolf, WIRED, 23 Oct. 2003
  • Even then, the rope system was antiquated, supposedly a holdover from the days of sailing ships, when seamen adept at scrambling through the rigging of a man-of-war were employed to work backstage in theaters.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 June 2017
  • Health records are antiquated, there's a shortage of primary care physicians and access to birth control and emergency contraception is limited in some places.
    — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 8 May 2017
  • Old-school checkpoint-and-limited-lives design feels positively antiquated.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 1 Oct. 2018
  • For most, the classic two-week honeymoon feels antiquated and unrealistic, inducing more stress than the relief it's intended to provide.
    — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Some are designed to lure more participation to the monthly auction, which in particular has come under fire for being antiquated and prone to spitting out unusual results.
    — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • As antiquated as this analog method seems, millions of people in jails and prisons with no Internet access still rely on librarians for answers that could be found in seconds online.
    — Max Kutner, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2015
  • And even if rules are restored, the notion that the internet should afford at least a minimally competitive landscape for new entrants now seems as antiquated as Friendster.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 11 June 2018
  • Still, proponents of Medicare for All call the association’s stance antiquated.
    — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2019
  • Those traditionally quaint notions of playing small ball, bunting, hitting behind runners, stringing hits together and counting on starters to pitch deep into a postseason game are antiquated.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • But Arkansas is being antiquated in its thinking that only someone who gets Arkansas can bring Arkansas back to its halcyon days.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 17 Nov. 2017
  • Manvel’s system of data entry and records management is antiquated, the chief said, and doesn’t allow for easy interface, particularly between systems.
    — Carissa D. Lamkahouan Staff Writer, Houston Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2019
  • At the time, the Detroit animal control facility was antiquated and still used a carbon monoxide chamber to euthanize animals.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Schumer is surely not alone among Democrats in his fondness for retaining the Senate’s antiquated supermajority requirement.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2018
  • Lin sometimes wondered whether traditional distributors were becoming antiquated in the country.
    — Will Ford, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • Don’t be antiquated In the original series, part of the father-son conflict was fueled by Blake Carrington’s struggle to accept his son’s sexuality.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • In hospitals across the country, medical equipment is antiquated, inoperative or nonexistent.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
  • Pollution is causing the stonework to decay, and the plumbing, electrical, drainage and ventilation systems are antiquated, never having undergone a major refurbishment.
    — Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • That was one of the conclusions that could be drawn from Wednesday’s meeting of the committee charged with examining the county’s antiquated Justice Center and whether its jail and courtrooms should be renovated or built anew.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2019
  • In their reasoning for their stance on Sorsby and gambling, Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec tried to make the point that NCAA rules were antiquated, and that millions of students have access to apps that allow the placing of bets.
    — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026

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