quaint

Example Sentences

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Most of the displaced are now sardined in the city’s quaint Old Quarter, which lies on a promontory jutting out of Tyre’s northernmost tip and is excluded from the evacuation order.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Cities are squalid crime hives that need to be tamed or abandoned in the Sheridanverse, whereas small towns and Western vistas are quaint canvases fertile with possibility.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

Perched on the edge of the rugged Yorkshire moors that inspired Emily Bronte to write her masterpiece "Wuthering Heights", the quaint village of Haworth has long been a place of literary pilgrimage.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

Now that looks downright quaint, as premium partners are raking in as much as Clark—and far more in some cases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Penelope found his imagery quaint, if a tad unoriginal, but knew better than to say so.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood