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
Eventually, with the help of a former colleague in Tokyo who’s become an antiques importer in Washington state, Rika flees her husband and relocates with Naomi, under a new name, to Seattle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Burrell’s family said in the statement announcing the antiques enthusiast’s death that the cancer community provided “so much comfort and strength to her in her darkest moments.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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
As the doors slid closed, enveloping them in solitude in that tiny metal chamber, Dimple’s mind somehow kept reverting back to that moment in the antiques store.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
