How to Use anachronism in a Sentence

anachronism

noun
Definition of anachronismnext
  • The novel is full of anachronisms.
  • He's an old-fashioned politician who is seen by many of his colleagues as an anachronism.
  • But then there are the wincing anachronisms, like an unspoken shame over a gay uncle.
    — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 29 July 2024
  • All of these anachronisms are reflected in the Constitution, not just in the treatment of race but in the structure of the government itself.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Now the Kings couldn’t get there, and so were an anachronism.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 10 Apr. 2017
  • And that beloved anachronism is one that might yet show the way for the future.
    — Marcel Krueger, CNN, 16 May 2022
  • In just three years, the group has become an anachronism.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • One columnist even called Perkins an anachronism stuck in the wrong age.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The Corvette is seen too often as an anachronism or a sad totem of mid-life crises.
    — Dan Carney, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2020
  • There are the truly strange anachronisms throughout the movie.
    — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Like a few of us, Coburn, who died last month in Chicago at age 81, was an anachronism.
    — Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022
  • DeRozan is something of an anachronism in the modern NBA.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The play is full of anachronisms, including that touch-tone phone.
    — Patti Hartigan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2019
  • This is the power and the anachronism of the Christmas card, which scratches an itch that iPhones should have cured by now.
    — Mac Schwerin, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • An anachronism, but laughter follows at the mention of the short-lived 1993 dance craze.
    — Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2019
  • Yet Wells herself might be an anachronism in the present landscape.
    — Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2022
  • By the 1990s, the idea of a liberalism that built stuff had become an anachronism.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • That’s why screens and credit cards are anachronisms, and should not be put into law in the modern era.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • For many, Glut’s bulk bins went from a charming anachronism to a lifeline.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2021
  • What’s more, the station hasn’t solved the most glaring Penn Station anachronism.
    — Richard Zoglin, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • To its credit, the adaptation seems aware of this anachronism.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2018
  • In this respect, too, Heavy is something of an anachronism.
    — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 15 Mar. 2017
  • Although railroads and trucks had made the log drive an anachronism by 1949, when this story first ran, the method was still used.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
  • The winter meetings are something of an anachronism in the smartphone era.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Pearl Jam, at that time, was feeling a little bit like an anachronism.
    — Gen Handley, SPIN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • These by-elections are a modern quirk in a place of more ancient anachronisms.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • The Favourite, for all its prestige costume drama bonafides, loves a good anachronism.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2019
  • One of the most audacious aspects of Walker is the presence of anachronisms.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
  • As a form of government, the British monarchy is a ridiculous anachronism.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Maybe that's why, 89 years later, what was once common place seems now like an anachronism.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2016

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