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    Use "antique" in a sentence

    antique example sentences

    antique


    antiques


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    1. Some of my friends bought a fabrication shop down in the Gengee, this is the best imitation of an antique ocean racer from our country that we can build


    2. With a deep sigh, he turned on the antique chairs and smashed them to pieces until there wasn’t a chunk bigger than his fist


    3. that littered a scarred and stained antique pine kitchen table, and pointing to a rickety


    4. The entire 'carburetor' of the antique daedalus engine that drove this early starship was gone


    5. She iconed the voice connection as an antique telephone handset floating over the current sensors plot table that was right in front of them


    6. The voice sounded disturbingly like Ava's, even when rendered as an antique phone would


    7. She's a potter and makes antique copies for the tourists


    8. She visualized the controls of state as an antique panel behind a heavy cast iron plate with a ten pound padlock on it


    9. ‘You like it then? It’s not new … I saw it in an antique shop and it had your name written all over it


    10. Antique? Maybe, if it is the right sort of antique, i

    11. It was an antique in 2341 but this was an era of implants


    12. She let the antique 2175 handset record the names and faces as unobtrusively as possible


    13. She used her antique phone to dash off a quick note of thanks to the guys at the DOCA, and a longer and more detailed note to Yellelle


    14. The table was an antique capstan with a clear-plast top scratched almost opaque


    15. out—an antique sewing machine, a typewriter, and a pair of ice skates that


    16. shoulder, like he was trying to resurrect a piece of antique farm equipment


    17. If he had it his way, her mentor would have waddled his way to Lock Core in his antique suite of plate mail


    18. completely an antique and had made it clear to Shreya, and in no


    19. There are, however, and a few antique stores


    20. one of the last running, antique, two-story, hand carved

    21. In her boredom amid attempts to sleep, she had taken to dusting off and polishing the bowl as best as she could and the antique rims shone brilliantly once again


    22. As Penelope stepped forward with meek feet, she thought she could hear the chants and chatter of that antique tongue


    23. Old Man Hinkle operates an antique store out of his home


    24. Of course, they expected him to carry this wristband everywhere – it looked like an antique wristwatch with its OLED text and numeral display; but he calculated that their level of reliance on him afforded a certain freedom from their preferred constraints


    25. It was an antique my grandfather left me


    26. The commander paused for a moment to look at his antique watch


    27. Slowly, cautiously, I reached my hand under the bulky antique dresser that was the current lair of the psycho-kitty


    28. He also learned that Kenny had a collection of antique guns including handguns


    29. Years passed, Clare had taken the last of Nathan’s sanity and all his antique furniture, and Esther had been kicked into touch by her lover


    30. He was giving a lecture on antique books to a group of folk here, and they all swear he never left the burrow they had congregated in

    31. 95 for my antique and got out of there as fast as I could


    32. Dawn pulled over an antique dining chair and the man cuffed her wrists to the arms


    33. For some reason, William did not expect this antique car to go so fast


    34. And that's where the soldiers found us, after they had stormed the chateau, tied to an old garden bench, precariously perched on the top of an antique wardrobe, both snoring loudly in an alcoholic stupor


    35. “He borrowed his dad’s sports car, an antique


    36. Bartholomew had laid out everything on a solid, definitely antique wooden table with experienced precision and unusual alacrity and grace, not to be expected from someone looking so ungainly


    37. The small cave was irregularly shaped in an angular way; the bookcases and an old study were massed together near the corner of the jutting rock, while a somewhat larger space to the right of the study, a sort of crevice, housed a small cot and a cupboard of what at a glance seemed to be antique wood


    38. I was quite surprised when he told me this until I was a passenger in his antique Mazda


    39. I say antique because it is not a model I recognised


    40. Now I could attend concerts anywhere in Montreal at affordable student rates; view art exhibitions at our university library and elsewhere in the city that changed weekly; explore antique shops, old book shops and interesting side streets populated by immigrants from western and central Europe

    41. He spotted the velvet black antique Hudson as it turned off the highway


    42. We discovered that this lovely old house, nearly a hundred years old (antique, by local standards), had her own resident ghost


    43. As she was on her way back to the couch, she noticed a large antique radio, sitting in one corner of the room


    44. He hobbled over to the antique radio


    45. There was also an antique hall-tree poised by the


    46. He lay on the big double poster antique bed draped in white material like a shroud, and watched her go


    47. Janelle had told them about an antique her mom


    48. When it came to leaving AZ quickly, we were fortunate that Dixie’s parents were very close to a realtor, Nellie Jackson, whose husband Tom was world famous for his antique car auctions each winter in Scottsdale (which their kids carry on)


    49. Along about the second semester of my junior year, I persuaded Pops to let me have a car again, one from his antique car collection in Ithaca—a 1952 Nash-Healey sports car


    50. On the wooden floor were items of antique furniture that had been consumed by time and eaten away by white ants













































    1. You've seen them on Antiques Road Show


    2. Annie was amazed to find herself in a most elegantly appointed salon, stuffed full of finely embroidered soft furnishings and antiques of obvious quality and refinement


    3. She consulted an antiques guide book and after much humming and page thumbing, she turned to Annie and said, “Your father never was very bright, my dear


    4. Unfortunately he believed what he saw on television and I’m rather afraid that he watched a little too much of the Antiques Roadshow


    5. When we talked earlier in the week about what to do with the furniture, she was very practical and said to take anything that would be useful here and, with the exception of a few antiques and items which originally came from my parents’ house, sell the rest


    6. She consulted an antiques


    7. filled it over the years with antiques and curios from around the


    8. furnished with what looked to me like antiques – wasted


    9. Two roads of thatch cottages, a plant nursery and an antiques store


    10. including many full of antiques

    11. antiques exchange as the town hosted six massive fairs every year


    12. I walked in as he was placing some antiques into a small box for a happy couple


    13. Aunt Martha had taken Uncle Hobart into Ealford to sell his old chamber pot, after seeing one just like it on the Antiques Road Show


    14. Nowadays visitors can haggle or drive bargains as do the ladies of the houses, taste Chinese tea, appreciate or perhaps even buy medicinal pomades, modern optics as did Lucille and, of course, Chinese antiques


    15. Both of us loved antiques, anything old with “soul” – a history and individuality of its own


    16. ” Antiques were a status symbol and usually referred to highly polished fragile items costing vast amounts of money


    17. Unappreciated at the time, and costing as little as the cheapest mass-produced furniture, my purchase of these apparently odd items had marked me out as eccentric After the restoration process that came with these purchases, they were appreciated by everyone else and approached the category of antiques


    18. By the time antiques or collectibles had become fashionable in South Africa, our home was filled with collectibles-turned-antiques


    19. Antiques: Good or evil inherited from our ancestries; reflecting and recalling the past


    20. “But that’s the beauty of antiques,” Noah said

    21. Never before had she slept in such a lavish place, with soft satin sheets, antiques and human blood in crystal cylinders


    22. I dealt with Antiques and Collector Cars, and had Car Yards which were not always run by the books


    23. Many different kinds of art paintings and antiques were brought out for auction, Jesse bid on some of them


    24. priceless antiques and she could just imagine the one she sat on


    25. Are you sure about the antiques and photos? You want to leave


    26. Just be careful of the antiques is all I ask


    27. Besides the typical junk food that all gas stations have, the place is filled with various antiques and bric-a-brac


    28. She was quite knowledgeable about antiques and had a book about them that she


    29. It was a chamber fit for a princess – from the rich Aubusson carpets to the authentic Sheraton and Hepplewhite antiques, Elizabethan four-poster bed with canopy and the Jacobean wardrobe and chest


    30. I didn’t know what those names meant but Laioli said they had belonged to priceless antiques from the improbable years called the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries CE

    31. distinctive and elegant stores loaded with antiques, sparkling crystal, souvenirs and memorabilia fervently sought by tourists, and headed for Stare Mesto, the old town


    32. As she looked about at the fine antiques on display, she realised how much she must have missed out on all these years that she had stayed at home being a housewife


    33. He had started off with petty thieving, then he had been found guilty and given a long prison sentence for the hi-jacking of a transit load of antiques, which had been bound for Canada to a multi-millionaire business man, who had emigrated there


    34. This time he decided to try something a little different and had managed to secure himself the post at Matthews antiques shop


    35. Therein were priceless antiques


    36. I couldn"t take my eyes off the antiques


    37. It was to be a museum of what life was before the meteors, filled with vintage and antiques


    38. You’ve read books on antiques, you’ve


    39. ” This reminds me of the sign that we saw as kids: We buy junk; sell antiques


    40. appraisers on The Antiques Dog and Pony Show, are authenticators

    41. I recall a sign of years ago that said, “We buy junk, sell antiques


    42. In many regards, it resembles Antiques Roadshow, insofar as it does checking in the same vein as the aforementioned flea market fiasco, but without the cash-craving citizens


    43. It is massive, it is filled with antiques and it smells of oak and whiskey


    44. ‘’Correct! I found it, along with other books, during my last vacation on Earth, in an old antiques store in Vancouver


    45. Her contacts with the Time Patrol would in fact be able to help her get some fine pieces of antiques for that purpose


    46. Either Carl Thompson is a lot worse off than when I last saw him, or he started to collect antiques


    47. The couple managed to park in the town square, and had time for a quick look round, including the antiques market where Edward Benbow had picked up the clockwork keys


    48. Sussex and became a dealer supplying antiques to customers in the United States


    49. It was a beautiful old house and they walked through the array of rooms, all stuffed with priceless antiques and portraits, Hunter keeping a running commentary as they went


    50. Outhouses? Or the great outdoors without benefit of well-furnished terrace or balcony? Forget it! So—who could explain her decision to “go #1” outside to save water and holding tank space? Or explain her leaving a luxurious, 5-level, park-girded townhouse to her 18-year-old daughter, replete with lynx, mink, diamonds, sapphires, artwork, antiques, and even precious antiquities, to go off and live in a 9’x29’ road-abode in the middle of nowheres everywhere! Go figure




























    1. Tossing her in the trunk of his vintage roadster and taking her … antiquing in Vermont


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    Synonyms for "antique"

    antique gaffer old-timer old geezer oldtimer antiquate demode ex old-fashioned old-hat outmoded passe passee age-old dated antiquated superannuated obsolescent obsolete old-time fossil hoary antediluvian venerable archaic prehistoric bygone rarity monument relic vestige heirloom

    "antique" definitions

    an elderly man


    any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity


    shop for antiques


    give an antique appearance to


    made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age


    out of fashion


    belonging to or lasting from times long ago