How to Use antiquate in a Sentence

antiquate

verb
Definition of antiquatenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Roads aren’t the only things that are rutted, corrupted and antiquated.
    — Matthew Cooper, Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the idea of permission is antiquated and offensive.
    — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Time or Life or the Saturday Evening Post—was becoming antiquated.
    — Sam Tanenhaus, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
  • 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
  • But beyond that vague language is a genuinely interesting idea: Adidas is working from the idea that top-down design is antiquated in 2018.
    — Jake Woolf, GQ, 19 Feb. 2018
  • His tactics were antiquated at best and amateurish at worst.
    — Luke Kerr-Dineen, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Still, proponents of Medicare for All call the association’s stance antiquated.
    — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2019
  • Javed dismissed the entire operation as hopelessly antiquated: even tribal Afghans, living in the Hindu Kush mountains, have Facebook.
    — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Some Republicans who favor the rule change say the current system is antiquated and does not take into account how multilingual U.S. citizens and residents have become.
    — Kimberly Kindy, Washington Post, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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