ANTIQUE in a Sentence

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68 example sentences for ANTIQUE, such as:

1. The museum contains the remains of Chinese antiquity.
2. Such a finding as this exquisite antique is rare indeed.
3. The numismatist had a splendid collection of antique coins.
4. Happiness is an antique reliquary painted on one side only.
5. The origins of this ancient structure are lost in antiquity.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANTIQUE
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antique
 n.  any furniture old and valuable; out of fashion
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
2  made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
3  In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the features of a new France were sketched out.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
4  However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique air, was tending even then to transformation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
5  Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, named Theodule, to embrace her without displeasure.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
6  Persons but superficially acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only antique.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
7  Happiness is an antique reliquary painted on one side only.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
8  The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its purity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
9  He was, as the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even sorrow cannot curve.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
10  He was dressed, according to his wont, like an incroyable, and resembled an antique portrait by Garat.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
11  Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
12  And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
13  And hanging the antique broad-brim on a bust of Plato, Jo read her letters.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
14  Amy's chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
15  We often walk in the Tuileries Gardens, for they are lovely, though the antique Luxembourg Gardens suit me better.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
Example Sentence:
1  The woeful ongoing situation of open archaeological sites which are being systematically plundered by antique smugglers will be another priority issue.
2  Looking at his great aunt's antique furniture, which must have been cluttering up her attic since the time of Noah's flood, the young heir exclaimed, "Heavens! How positively antediluvian!".
3  The numismatist had a splendid collection of antique coins.
4  Quite a few of these old booklets can still be found in antique stores, or online bookstores.
5  A few strange, antique portraits of the men and women of other days decorated the stained walls.
6  The museum houses the biggest collection of antique toys in Europe.
7  Such a finding as this exquisite antique is rare indeed.
8  The lace on Diana's dress was not just old, it was really, really old, sourced from antique scraps bought at auction by her dress designers.
9  We are tolerably conversant with the early English poets; and can discover no resemblance whatever, except in antiquated spelling and a few obsolete words.
10  This is a modern health services research unit but you hold an antiquated view of science.
11  Cannibalism is an undeniable occurrence rooted in antiquity and branching forth to the present-day.
12  There have been many republics in the past, both in what we call antiquity and in what we call the Middle Ages.
13  The museum contains the remains of Chinese antiquity.
14  The origins of this ancient structure are lost in antiquity.
15  This latest device will antiquate the ice-cube tray.