Sentence examples for an archaic term from inspiring English sources

A "lig" is an archaic term referring to a cover that hung from the king's bed.

To some, civility may be an archaic term, but in reality it is an essential part of our social fabric.

(Characteristically, he notes, "I could have said: I write to convict mankind," but he "wanted the use of the pun": "indite" is an archaic term for "write").

Occupy Wall Street's skeptics — and there are a lot of those, though far fewer than there were a week ago — like to note the protesters are not actually occupying a street named Wall, but a park named Zuccotti; and that "Wall Street" is an archaic term, anyway, since many financial firms aren't resident there.

I believe that convergence is an archaic term.

The term "earth" is simply an archaic term for something you can dissolve in acid.

Anti-trust became an almost archaic term.

The groups who are still at the top of the Mexican electronic scene (via "Latin alternative" channels), Mexican Institute of Sound and Nortec Collective, are both categorized as electronica, an increasingly archaic term for dance music.

Of the three who survived past young adulthood, a sister died of a stroke at age 71, another sister died of a heart attack at 59, and a brother died at age 69 of "stenocardia," an archaic medical term whose meaning is no longer clear.

The fumbling use of that once respectable, now archaic term (which, incidentally, is a category choice on the 2010 Census form) by Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, whom the authors quote in the course of describing Reid's enthusiasm for Obama's candidacy, has provoked hours of voluptuous outrage from Hannityburg and Limbaughgrad.

As for whether Lee was hurt by the crude, archaic term, he conceded, "It was not a pleasant conversation for anyone".