How To Use Antediluvian In A Sentence
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‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says.
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An embarrassed Steil opened his antediluvian Hotpoint refrigerator and poured water into two discarded Classic Coke cans.
OUTCAST
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Flash forward two decades and the documentary section had become a sleepy backwater, with an antediluvian selection committee seemingly oblivious to new currents in documentary film.
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Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs (which do, in fact, branch fairly close to birds on the dinosaur bush).
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antediluvian" shape of the bat -- no paddings on the legs.
Pickwickian Manners and Customs
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From what cursed old antediluvian, who lived before the invention of spinning-jennies, she learned this craft, Heaven only knows; but there she sits, with her work pinned to her knee — not the pretty taper silken fabric, with which
Saint Ronan's Well
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Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised?
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Well now his self-contradictions will be in plain view, and he'll be compared not with crazy Guilianis and inept Romneys and antediluvian Huckabees, but with an attractive, dynamic young Democrat who will not let McCain corning the "straight talk" market.
McCain: Obama Has Nothing In Common With Hamas -- But The Voters Think It Should Be An Issue, Anyway
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Either our chronology is at fault, or the pyramids must have been constructed by the antediluvian demigods, and have outstood the strength of the surging seas which rolled over the earth.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century.
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The ability to touch-type is greatly overrated unless you are the secretary - sorry, PA - to some antediluvian boss who still wants to dictate letters.
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They gave me what they called a beefsteak pie -- a tough crust and under it some blackish cubes carved out of the muscle of an antediluvian ox-and for this delicious fare and a glass of stout I paid three shillings and odd pence.
Afoot in England
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Lots of words are just as rarely used, and yet just as legitimate: consider “trichinosis”, “antediluvian”, “antiphonic”, “okapi”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths:
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He complains that merchants in Pasadena are "antediluvian" when it comes to the Internet.
Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds.
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(The antediluvian computer is called the Tomba 5000, because the monitor is trimmed with pink fur.
Ana-ng Diary Entry
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Such methods are, of course, antediluvian now.
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Blow it out the hole in your astrakhan coat, you antediluvian bastid.
Obama To Declare Victory: "Our Primary Season Has Finally Come To An End"
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Wilcox is a bit antediluvian, but use your charm on him and see if he can come up with anything.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Despite the Jessica accident, tourists still flock to the Galapagos, tempted by a once-in-a-lifetime chance to return the antediluvian stare of a giant tortoise or turn cartwheels with playful sea lions in an underwater ballet.
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The doctor armed himself, and held himself in readiness to fire upon an animal which, by its dimensions, recalled the antediluvian quadrupeds.
The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras
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That way, they would have found out what kind of antediluvian throwback they hve admitted to the EU.
Timesofmalta.com
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But I cannot see the House of Lords' decision as some sort of cataclysm which has put a quarter of a century's family jurisprudence into antediluvian obsolescence.
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Officials at headquarters either forgot about it, or could not store the information in a useful place because of an antediluvian computer system.
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Now, as we drive into the Age of Dinosaurs, we have another choice: we can head north, into Queensland where a few dinosaurs have been found in an antediluvian inland sea and a huge series of river deltas that emptied into it.
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Historic under-investment, endemic overmanning and antediluvian labour relations finally caught up with it just when it had a management least able to cope.
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Other Browne's neologisms which spring immediately to mind include - 'electrical' 'electricity' 'hallucination' 'caricature' 'pathology' 'ambidextrous' 'antediluvian' 'retromingent' 'callyphygae' , 'gymnastically' and many, many others.
Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms
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The other almost always requires a delicate dance through a minefield of potential libel, antediluvian prejudice, and post-publication recriminations.
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Part of this is a reflection of inadequate staffing, poor management, and an antediluvian records system; some is a question of attitude, especially among inexperienced, simply ignorant, or poorly led secondary care teams.
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Antiquites Celtiques," published in 1847, M. Boucher de Perthes styled these older tools "antediluvian," because they came from the lowest beds of a series of ancient alluvial strata bordering the valley of the Somme, which geologists had termed "diluvium.
The Antiquity of Man
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I bought it from Alan Austin's shop, which was not a shop but a basement with occasional opening hours, in those antediluvian days of 1975 when there were no comic shops, somewhere in South London.
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If I remember correctly from my antediluvian youth, he's in there right now endlessly combing his hair but it won't make a scrap of difference.
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Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs.
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antediluvian," and for startling originality in his views as well as fearlessness in expressing them.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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That sounds positively antediluvian now, doesn't it?
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If the Government is reduced to grubbing the votes of its most backward-looking, antediluvian backbenchers, then what is it in office for?
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A long horn projects from the snout, and it is a fac-simile in miniature of the antediluvian monster, the "iguanodon," who was about a hundred feet long and twelve feet thick -- an awkward creature to meet in a narrow road.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
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Other Browne's neologisms which spring immediately to mind include - 'electrical' 'electricity' 'hallucination' 'caricature' 'pathology' 'ambidextrous' 'antediluvian' 'retromingent' 'callyphygae' , 'gymnastically' and many, many others.
Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms
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You are made to feel like an antediluvian creature or a downright atheist!
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An antediluvian civilization, thriving and technologically advanced prior to the flood, managed to survive the flood due to their technological prowess.
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antediluvian man
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This antediluvian monetary system has now been replaced by the up - to - date monetary system of Japan.
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If the Government is reduced to grubbing the votes of its most backward-looking, antediluvian backbenchers, then what is it in office for?
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The basement behind formed the firs fire station with its antediluvian engine, and opposite was the police station.
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Why should Wisconsin women be expected to revere his anti-woman, antediluvian teachings?
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The antediluvian myth is one where it is suggested that the ancients lived exceptionally long lives.
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a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
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My mother has some hopelessly antediluvian ideas about the role of women.
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The term hapax legomenon), and could mean a lost species of tree, an antediluvian composite, or a lost art of producing wood for shipbuilding.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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So far as he was concerned, all animal products were organic -- an attitude Nadia found hopelessly antediluvian.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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antediluvian ideas
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One even tells its followers that they may relive former lives, back into antediluvian periods.
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Freeman organises his almost overwhelmingly rich subject into thematic chapters, of which the most absorbing discuss the way such artists as John Martin portrayed the antediluvian world as a place of catastrophe or competition.
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Sally Keeble, MP for Northampton North, thought the ban epitomised 'the complete nonsense of an institution that won't move on', and Barbara Follett, MP for Stevenage, talked of 'antediluvian' attitudes.
Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography
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And upon the top of that one of the stone pillars supporting the gate which I could see, stood a creature of stone, whether natant, volant, passant, couchant, or rampant, I could not tell, only it looked like something terrible enough for a quite antediluvian heraldry.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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The last time I was in a gym was in high school, back in an antediluvian time when they had this thing called phys. ed.
Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
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When Dewi Morris uses the word "antediluvian" you know you've got a problem
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
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He had found that people for some reason felt reassured by the production of these antediluvian tools of the journalist's trade.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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In addition, the parallels between the Sumerian and biblical antediluvian data open up the possibility of establishing chronological correlations between the rest of the Kings List and the book of Genesis.
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In the new dispensation, religion is being hemmed into a narrow, private world, as if a public commitment to certain beliefs is old-fashioned and antediluvian, like wearing your shirt inside your drawers.
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If the Fire Brigades Union had more deft leadership, it might have found a way to secure something approaching its pay demand by offering to negotiate its antediluvian work practices.
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‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says.
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Hard not like a man who describes himself as "an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.
Deo gratias ..
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Take a look in the playhouses of some Scottish towns and you can still find the sort of antediluvian performances which used to struggle to get on the bill at Butlins in the 50s.
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Regrettably, this illogical and antediluvian attitude still persists even when we are dealing with nations substantially richer than ourselves.
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The Cardiff giant is a fake fossil of an antediluvian giant some ten feet high with 21 inch feet.
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Parker also complains that British (military) ambulances are "antediluvian" and "reveals" that the laboratory at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, which is used to match blood and test samples, had to close between 11.30am and 3.30pm because the air-conditioning system could not keep the temperature below 97F (36C).
Archive 2007-06-01
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Amid the antediluvian machismo, Mowlam posed as a political tea-lady and helped to deliver peace.
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Still, the two gurus were making the same point: In no time, today's Net will be an antediluvian relic, replaced by an unimaginably advanced network that controls all communication everywhere.
