How to Use ancient in a Sentence

ancient

adjective

• The practice was more common in ancient times than it is now.
• The people in the village still observe the ancient customs of their ancestors.
• She studied both ancient and modern history.
• That shame has deep, ancient roots.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• So kind of ancient to be doing that.
  — Torie Bosch, STAT, 13 June 2026
• No ancient text described how to play it.
  — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2026
• The idea that oil spreads across water is ancient.
  — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
• The latest trend has ancient roots.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
• The Isle of Skye holds the key to ancient species.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
• This all sounds like something out of an ancient Greek epic.
  — Big Think, 8 May 2026
• Coquina rock is an ancient mixture of shells, sand, and acid rain.
  — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 30 June 2026
• Crist hopes the study will help researchers solve other ancient board games.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2026
• Klein now had most of the funds needed to save a unique stand of ancient forest.
  — David Gelles, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
• It’s been restored in part over the years but maintains much of its ancient roots.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 23 Feb. 2026
• Just like ancient legends and myths, names have power.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
• West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient gushing water once were.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
• But the idea of skipping meat isn’t new by any means—people have done it since ancient times.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
• The house next door to me could have been remodeled, and two ancient oaks could have been saved.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
• Our ancient ancestors loved their birch tar.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Mar. 2026
• Greek Revival Greece and its ancient thinkers play a big role.
  — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
• Scientists have been on the search for signs of ancient life on Mars.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 31 May 2024
• The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2026
• The students and scholars nurtured in this ancient way will not be timid.
  — MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
• The hotel sits above a deep valley, with ancient caves built into the cliffs.
  — Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
• In fact, there were many such methods in ancient China.
  — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
• Watch for pedestal logs, remnants of ancient trees perched atop a crumbly stand of thick clay as if on display.
  — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Taxing wealth can be dated back to ancient Egypt.
  — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
• The site was once an ancient hot spring like Yellowstone.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
• Now, the researchers believe that ancient star dunes may be hiding in plain sight.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
• Many ancient and fortified grains contain as much or more iron than spinach.
  — Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 10 June 2026