How to Use archaic in a Sentence

archaic

adjective
  • The company needs to update its archaic computer systems.
  • These archaic mindsets need to change and have no place in our sport.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2022
  • Your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions.
    — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 16 Mar. 2015
  • But even these archaic prospects do not seem meaningless to many.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Here's hoping Markle's speech ends that archaic rule once and for all.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Sure, the whole concept of spring-cleaning feels quaint and archaic just now.
    — refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The idea of being chained to a cubicle for eight-plus hours a day, five days a week now looks archaic.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Look to bedside lamps with a historic twist, like the banker’s lamps found in archaic libraries.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2026
  • To call her a socialite is archaic at best, the designer said tartly.
    — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Christians and other groups are falling victim to an archaic set of laws.
    — David Bhatti, National Review, 18 July 2023
  • Trapping is not an archaic enterprise that is destined for the scrap heap.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Lockers are among the most iconic and archaic elements of high school life.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2017
  • The archaic state of it, however, is a problem.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Many old documents are written in an archaic hand the practice of which has fallen out of use.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
  • This kind of archaic dogma has no place in a modern-era church that is more in tune with humanity and its needs.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • The sale had been driven by the archaic system by which Oregon holds the state forest.
    — Rob Davis | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 9 May 2017
  • While the practice known as privateering is archaic, the idea has come up in recent decades.
    — Timothy Bella and Amy Cheng, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Faced with no solutions, entrepreneurs will feel pressure to change things even faster, or to get rid of the rules that are not archaic.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • The result is an honest portrait of both the victim and those who loved her, as well as the cryptic, archaic world of academia.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The result is a both an honest portrait of the victim and those who loved her, as well as the cryptic, archaic world of academia.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The problem is the core systems are old, archaic technologies.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The best way to do that is to lift the archaic blackout restrictions that infuriate so many fans.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That archaic system badly needs updating, both of these airlines have told us.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Fights broke out now and then as people tried to rejigger the archaic network of pipes to their advantage.
    — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • The story provides examples of both how to do it and how not to do it when existing rules are archaic and slow to change.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • As archaic as this phrase may be, there’s something to be said about addressing two wants, needs or concerns with half the effort.
    — Dominique Hobdy, Essence, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Maybe in 100 years’ time, the thought of resisting iris scans or face-tracking will seem archaic.
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • There’s a separate debate as to the archaic nature of email itself and the need for something new.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
  • But in a matter of five years, a lawsuit, a new president, and an archaic legal system would rob them of all of it.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2020
  • This rule has evolved, though it’s not considered completely archaic.
    — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 1 June 2026

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