antique
adjective
of or belonging to the past; not modern.
Example Sentences
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And the antiques business was just another front in a web of deceit that used dozens of lonely people like Stafford as unknowing money launderers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Her father was a traveling antiques dealer, but also operated a lakeside summer resort in Michigan, where, at a young age, Steinem was enamored of the musicians who passed through to play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Most of the home’s antiques are Spanish and Peruvian, with some French, Chinese and English pieces; one weighty armoire had to be craned in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The court heard the accompanying paperwork had been typed using a typewriter on paper embossed with an antiques dealers' logo – and even a nine-pence stamp.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
I also worked in the antiques shop, cleaning and dusting things like the sets of beautiful Russian glasses that sat on the shelf.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
