ancient
Example Sentences
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Aunt Kitty turned to her left and greeted the elderly gentleman seated beside her, the ancient husband of one of the other society mavens.
From Literature
Hartman loves growing crops, and his mother mentioned protea, an ancient type of flowering plant found in South Africa and Australia.
From Los Angeles Times
The summit is being held in the ancient city of Nara in Takaichi’s home prefecture.
It had the potential to be "Port Talbot's Pompeii", he suggested, playfully referring to the ancient Roman city preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
From BBC
The portrait is appealing, but the author too often relies on ancient writers who were themselves captivated by the ideal of a wise man in power.
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