How to Use antediluvian in a Sentence

antediluvian

adjective

• He has antediluvian notions about the role of women in the workplace.
• Of all the units that measure all the things, Scoville heat units have got to be the most antediluvian.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• Yet this paragon was managed according to an antediluvian five-volume set of rules.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2020
• But at least you weren’t sandbagged by some antediluvian notion of how family is supposed to work.
  — John Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
• Power was, in this antediluvian period, a voice of piercing moral clarity.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• After all, the arrangement Nagel has with his baby mamas is arguably not just regressive but antediluvian.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 23 Dec. 2021
• Yet out of this stew of sadism, closeted homosexuality and antediluvian notions of machismo came some great art.
  — Scott Stossel, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• The big transmission lever feels slightly antediluvian in what is otherwise a quite modern interior.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2023
• The Morgan Plus Four for decades was affectionately known as Britain's most antediluvian sports car.
  — Morgan, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022
• Their complicated and antediluvian fruitcake recipe was handwritten on a document that was battered by time and annual refolding.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 25 Dec. 2021
• The stories were later re-edited to delete such antediluvian tropes, but in the process they were made shorter as well; much of Wirt Benson’s mellifluous prose tumbled to the cutting-room floor.
  — Michael Callahan, Marie Claire, 9 Oct. 2019
• At worst, Muslims were castigated as a community with antediluvian beliefs.
  — Sharik Laliwala, Quartz India, 20 Feb. 2020
• In the antediluvian times of 2016, Los Angeles’s new stadium had been picked to host last year’s Super Bowl.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
• Presented as some kind of antediluvian free state for kids, in which play is loosely organized but otherwise unfettered, its conventions are sneakily conservative.
  — Mac Schwerin, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
• Less told is the story of the wine program, which has grown to the point of bursting, a cascading, antediluvian overflow of wine wine wine, which dominates the restaurant’s interior tableau as a sort of none-too-subtle vinous call to arms.
  — Jordan Michelman, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• Why then risk reputational damage by seeking the top position of an organization marked by decades of endemic corruption and antediluvian thinking?
  — Samindra Kunti, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• By mastering antediluvian musical syntax, the Ramblers accorded the old-time string band canon great respect while also equipping themselves to reimagine it with their own exuberant stamp.
  — Bill Friskics-Warren, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• As advanced as the futuristic environment was visually, the team found innovation by juxtaposing the setting with its people and their antediluvian mindsets.
  — Rendy Jones, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
• This antediluvian town knows — and that, too, is part of its multimillion-dollar charm — that in a world of rapidly upgrading software and all-subsuming artificial intelligence, natural wisdom must be nurtured and celebrated.
  — Kalpana Mohan, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
• What’s clear here is that the National Right to Work foundation is pushing their antediluvian, anti-worker agenda at all cost at a time when Americans keep demanding stronger laws to protect their right to join together in unions.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• From the first page, Satrapi questions and lampoons the antediluvian and Draconian policies of the Islamic Republic, particularly with respect to women.
  — Joobin Bekhrad, Time, 10 June 2026
• Image Image Today, in our era of figuration and socially conscious painting, Stella’s 60-year devotion to abstract art might sound academic or even antediluvian.
  — Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 5 May 2024
• Some of the earliest restorations of dinosaurs and marine reptiles by the 19th century artist John Martin were apocalyptic spectacles of antediluvian combat where scavengers waited to pick at the remains of the losing contestant.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2011
• In order to win the battle on this issue, the administration will have to get free of the antediluvian tyranny of the Congressional Budget Office, which has not predicted any economic development accurately in decades.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
• Although the Lot Radio lies within spitting distance of Williamsburg’s looming hotels and overflowing nightclubs, this makeshift hangout, which began as an internet radio station and coffee shop, conjures a charmingly antediluvian era.
  — Ben Detrick, New York Times, 9 May 2017
• Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator.
  — Richard Jacobsen, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2022