Example Sentences

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Of course, Kronthaler accessorized it anachronistically with pale blue striped rugby socks.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

The choice made the food respectable to successive waves of non-Mexicans and survives in the anachronistically titled “Spanish” rice.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022

At one point, speaking of Captain Wentworth, the man she still loves after having foolishly rejected years earlier, she anachronistically observes that “now we’re worse than exes — we’re friends.”

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022

Most delightfully of all, the over-confident string bean anachronistically decked out in Keanu’s Matrix costume isn’t the living worst.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2020

LA anachronistically confuses this Ainmire with Ainmire mac Setna, King of Tara, A.D. 564-566.

From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by MacAlister, R.A. Stewart