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
• There are some who have a very archaic line of thinking.
  — Clay Skipper, GQ, 13 Apr. 2018
• That is an archaic structure that may well need to change.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 6 Apr. 2021
• Your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions.
  — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 16 Mar. 2015
• 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
• 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
• There are people that are still archaic in their thinking.
  — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2019
• Lockers are among the most iconic and archaic elements of high school life.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2017
• From the archaic language to the specialized jargon, most of us need lawyers just to translate the words of other lawyers.
  — Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• Here's hoping Markle's speech ends that archaic rule once and for all.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 29 Jan. 2018
• Trapping is not an archaic enterprise that is destined for the scrap heap.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
• 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
• These archaic institutions can take a long time to change.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 4 July 2021
• The problem is the core systems are old, archaic technologies.
  — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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 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 archaic notion that learning is a function of adding to what is not there is inaccurate.
  — Loubna Noureddin, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The expansive roster opens up many questions about the archaic arms race between bacteria and the phages that prey on them.
  — Elie Dolgin, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2020
• Those who have not encountered it tend to imagine it’s the stuff of archaic English pub signs.
  — Henry Hitchings, WSJ, 8 May 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
• But should a set of archaic rules also be used to take Britain out of the European Union?
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2016
• Yet this archaic system, and others like it, is responsible for the fate of hundreds of species.
  — Harrison Takoff, Smithsonian, 2 Apr. 2018
• The archaic belief that the earth is flat and not a globe, as centuries of research have determined, may seem like a silly and fringe belief.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2022
• The language is somewhat archaic, but the message is clear – the peace prize was designed to be about stopping war and promoting peace.
  — Andrew Blum, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024