ancient

How To Use ancient In A Sentence

• I lashed the clothes that I had been brought to wear at the hospital into the bag, a couple of ancient pairs of socks that felt suddenly found and familiar.
• Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
• Botanical species in this ancient ecosystem included sagebrush, bluegrass, sedges, and herbs.
• The pictures show squares within squares - the water-holding depressions that in ancient times made the gardens fruitful.
• The second section of an ancient Greco - Roman letter was prayer or a word of thanks.
• It shows fractured blocks of ancient sedimentary rock separated by recent sand dunes.
• Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
• Agates were apparently highly valued by the ancient Egyptians for their lapidary use and were mounted into gold with other precious stones such as lapis and emeralds.
• And when he escaped, might it not have been to these ancient, forested hills? Times, Sunday Times
• The pageant promises to be a curious mixture of the ancient and modern.