How to Use antiquarian in a Sentence

antiquarian

1 of 2 noun

• The antiquarian admittedly didn’t have such an easy road to the opening in 2005.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
• This copy of Bede’s history went to renowned English antiquarian Thomas Phillipps.
  — Andrea Rosa, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
• This copy of Bede's history went to renowned English antiquarian Thomas Phillipps.
  — CBS News, 17 May 2026
• In a letter to the editor, New York antiquarian Jan Skala announced his ownership of the watch.
  — Daniel Miller Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• There are no fewer than a dozen rival theories advanced by a rich confusion of academics, antiquarians and statesmen who contradict one another and sometimes themselves.
  — Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• There are no fewer than a dozen rival theories advanced by a rich confusion of academics, antiquarians and statesmen who contradict one another and sometimes themselves.
  — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• By the 16th century cardinals and other antiquarians began to take an interest in the sculpture that occasionally turned up in these plots of land.
  — Greg Woolf, WSJ, 29 June 2018
• An antiquarian named William Camden recorded the existence of the ruins in a 1586 treatise.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023
• In the house’s eaves, where Sheraton and her husband kept cozy twin offices, the books awaited Slotnick, who specializes in out-of-print and antiquarian titles, and who’d been given first dibs.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
• In some quarters, preservation is thought of as an antiquarian undertaking, a sentimental allegiance to structures that have ceased to function and so have relinquished their right to exist.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2024
• In the mid-19th century, a British antiquarian named Sir Thomas Phillipps announced his intention of owning one copy of every book in the world.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Physician and antiquarian William Stukeley built England’s first garden hermitage at his home in Grantham in 1727.
  — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
• In 1852, however, the antiquarian Richard Hitchcock visited the site and concluded that the tomb had been dismantled, perhaps so that its stones could be reused elsewhere.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• The scholar and antiquarian John Leland was one of the men Henry dispatched to monasteries in search of volumes containing information that would justify his new position as head of the church.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• Then, around 1820, a Philadelphia antiquarian named Alexander Young found Winslow’s account.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
• Martin Farquhar Tupper, a poet and an antiquarian favored by Queen Victoria, argued that Rapa Nui was the remnant of a lost continent whose people had perished.
  — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
• Michael Dawson is a third-generation Los Angeles bookseller from the celebrated antiquarian book and photography sellers.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• In their enthusiasm to denigrate medieval relics and their custodians, these Anglican antiquarians also dismissed some rational explanations for corporal incorruption.
  — Katherine Harvey, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017

antiquarian

2 of 2 adjective

• Not all the books are antiquarian, though many were printed before 1850.
  — Betsy Groban, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• The building used to be an antiquarian bookshop with soaring arches and the owners have kept the charming vintage vibes.
  — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2024
• Once a week or so, legendary antiquarian and shopkeeper John Rosselli steals away to his home away from home.
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 18 Nov. 2019
• Stating this bluntly is not a mere matter of antiquarian interest or settling scores.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
• With the help of his in-house team, each piece has been sourced from antique markets, prestigious auction houses, and antiquarian dealers around the world.
  — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
• Big-game hunters can browse the store’s antiquarian titles, and those looking for quantity will be drawn to the eclectic and constantly updated sales rack out front.
  — Michael Hingston, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
• Big-game hunters can browse the store’s antiquarian titles, while those looking for quantity will be drawn to the eclectic and constantly updated sales rack out front.
  — Michael Hingston, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
• That legacy was curating a large collection, starting as an antiquarian book dealer, then switching to mass-market books.
  — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
• It is owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and sells a mix of old, new and antiquarian books since 1936.
  — Lindsay Silberman, Town & Country, 8 Mar. 2018
• Once again, the show includes Book Alley, a section devoted to antiquarian, art and collectible books.
  — Laura Fenton, ELLE Decor, 18 Jan. 2012
• The city will host at least 10, offering hundreds of booths of modern and contemporary art, from blue chip to brand-new, and even a sampling of antiquarian books.
  — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• Barnes & Noble closed its Walnut Creek location last year leaving the city with just one antiquarian collectibles book store.
  — Jennifer Modenessi, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
• On Wall Street, as for an antiquarian bookseller, intermediaries tend to make the most money when the job is most difficult.
  — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• Attempts to recreate the building now would amount to a pastiche or replica, not a restoration, and Mackintosh was an innovator, not an antiquarian.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Bunny remained close to her devoted son Stacy, who for many years owned an antiquarian bookstore in Georgetown and has lived in a separate house on the Upperville farm.
  — Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2014
• The process, known as proroguing, usually passes without much notice, except for the pompous rituals and antiquarian costumes that accompany it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• But in the age of digitization and AI, antiquarian booksellers like Kline have had to adapt accordingly.
  — Daily News, 24 Apr. 2026
• In 1852, Adie’s grave was exhumed at the direction of the antiquarian Joseph Neil Paton.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
• Swan, who opened her roughly 1,000-square foot antiquarian shop nearly four years ago at the rear of a building on Locust Street, doesn’t see Amazon as a threat.
  — Jennifer Modenessi, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2017
• Seventy-seven-year-old Harvey Jason may be the only antiquarian bookseller to inspire an action figure.
  — Lesley M. M. Blume, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• The idea is to give researchers better access to the Dutch cartography, Tom Harper, lead curator of antiquarian maps at the library, tells Meier.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
• After a lucky meeting with Cameron Treleaven, an antiquarian bookseller from Calgary, he was sent a whole library of explorers’ accounts.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Kay and his wife renovated the once-crumbling mansion and, with the help of an antiquarian friend in London, are filling it with period pieces and Nightingale memorabilia.
  — Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
• Presiding over all of this is a coterie of characters plucked haphazardly from other periods in Ivrea’s history, parading around in antiquarian costumes.
  — Jon Mooallem Andrea Frazzetta, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• In addition to Chip and Jo painting the antiquarian island, the couple also finished the Romanesque cabinet by troweling a hard slab of concrete on top.
  — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2017
• One impressive example of the platform’s power is the antiquarian bookstore Willbrand in Cologne, Germany.
  — Leila Herrmann, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
• LaKeith Stanfield, playing a single note with building intensity, stars as Apollo, a dealer in antiquarian books.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
• The San Antonio antiquarian bookstore opened in 1967 downtown.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2022
• And while dramatically increased security at the Vatican may go a long way toward preventing a recurrence here, the case is a window into the shadowy world of antiquarian forgeries.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• The fair brings together international exhibitors, including galleries, cultural institutions and antiquarian booksellers to share a wide range of art books.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023