Sentence examples for ancient for from inspiring English sources

Forty-six is ancient for an athlete.

If those days seem ancient for these Nets, it was the same for the 1988 Orioles.

But Louis was 38 by then, ancient for a boxer, and drained by too many punches, too much life.

IT'S true that 59 sounds ancient for a dancer, but the sight of Vicky Shick might change your mind.

Its origin, however, is still more ancient, for Marcus Apicius, Aristophanes, and even Homer allude to dishes of similar composition.

At 35, I'm too ancient for MySpace - I'd look like a school-gate paedo - but that's not really the issue.

Yeats found that this lore chimed with his feeling for ancient ritual, for pagan beliefs never entirely destroyed by Christianity.

Coloured by hornblende fibres and chlorite, it was used by the ancients for engravings.

The ancients, for example, spoke of a golden age, a silver age, a bronze age, and so forth.

Second, even if we are able to convincingly reproduce food that seems genuinely ancient--for instance, the western Ligurian mountain dish called gran pistau, made of crushed, long-cooked wheat berries seasoned with leeks, pork, oil and cheese (probably very close to the kind of thing the Romans ate --we cate --wesibly eate --we the ancaen't did.

Can we say from this for sure that SORs constitute crude, ancient systems for superoxide detoxification?