Example Sentences

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With installations focused on the fabled, traffic-free, open road “freedom” that car manufacturers like to so often tout, there’s something quaintly old fashioned here.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

It is, quaintly and truly, the people’s house, paid for by taxpayers and enduring over centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Whether you live on the Kitsap Peninsula or are just looking for an excuse to take your bike on a ferry, mountain biking awaits just outside the quaintly restored mill town of Port Gamble.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2022

At the Army post’s museum, Afghanistan is already an exhibit, complete with oil paintings of notable battles, showing uniforms already quaintly dated.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2021

Who we are being so many hard facts held like candies or coins, just up one’s sleeve — one’s father, one’s mother, all the things that might quaintly be termed one’s station.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen