How to Use antiquity in a Sentence

antiquity

noun
  • The town dates from antiquity.
  • A palace stood here in antiquity.
  • Katsin feared the divers were antiquities thieves and was able to chase them out of the area.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • It was made of gold and strung with beads made of lapis lazuli, a blue stone prized in antiquity.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • There are dealers in coins and stamps and antiquities, and, above all, books.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Egypt is no stranger to high-profile art and antiquities thefts.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Yet the assault on its antiquity in recent times has been fierce.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • But keep in mind, trans identities have been with us since the antiquities.
    — CBS News, 23 July 2023
  • How did an artifact of antiquity make it to the vestibule of a hotel?
    — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2023
  • The artform, like so many relics of antiquity, is now in a museum.
    — Margaret Andersen, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
  • As of late antiquity, Europeans still lived in tribes, like most of the rest of the world.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • It was found at the bottom of a 30ft pit, in a tomb that had been ransacked and robbed in antiquity.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Artists have copied and quoted the masterpieces of the past since antiquity.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Just imagine being the guy who’s in charge of Greek antiquities.
    — Stephen Heyman, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2025
  • In antiquity its six million mud bricks were covered with sheets of iron and lead and inlaid with crystals.
    — Leon McCarron, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The setting is green and damp, a little chilly and full of antiquities that toe the line between charming and creepy.
    — ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Amid all this antiquity is a modern spin on tradition.
    — Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2026
  • One was a fragment of what had in antiquity been a much larger cameo of a female figure in profile.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • People have tried to recreate the movements of the stars and planets since antiquity.
    — Martin Bush, Space.com, 5 July 2025
  • His is one of the few detailed records about pilgrim sites of the Holy Land in late antiquity.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Even in antiquity, some thinkers embodied this courage.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Above, in the shallow waters of the sea, oyster beds have yielded pearls since antiquity.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • Madrid may not have the sheer beauty of Paris or the antiquity of Athens or Rome.
    — Town & Country, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Aswan is a city that dates from antiquity about 425 miles up the Nile from Cairo.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 4 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
  • Moore noted that fan favorites like the rocking chairs, peg games and antiquities on the wall aren't going away.
    — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The legacy of the great and rich period that was antiquity has lain dormant in us for centuries.
    — WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • But recent research is showing that the disease was quite common all the way back to antiquity.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 2 Mar. 2018

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