Sentence examples for archaic devices from inspiring English sources

On Amazon, archaic devices like straight razors and safety razors, and grooming products (including mustache wax and combs) from Gilded-Age-y brands like Edwin Jagger and Colonel Conk have been selling so well that Amazon created a special category — "classic shave" — to showcase them all.

To find one of the most advanced airplanes in the sky, they would have to travel to one of the most primitive places on earth — and seek out one of the most archaic devices in modern aviation, a relic that has barely changed in the last half-century of flight: the black box.

Considering the changes in telephones since I was a child, I try to imagine what my tiny grandchildren will be telling theirs about the archaic devices of their youth.

Because the only way to explain was by recovering the black box — an archaic device on its way to obsolescence but not there yet.

To use an archaic device of elevation (both of value and physical height) for the display of contemporary sculpture in the context of a collectively occupied and politically charged square at the centre of London is a wonderfully risky business, but one well worth the biscuit.

The hourglass is shown as the feature and the constant because it is a widely known archaic device and is almost magical and meditative to watch.

From the moment the video went online, it inspired Twitter titters for a shot of its heroine closing the archaic device -- wouldn't Adele be able to afford something slightly more Steve JobSteve?

We are proud that our cities, Los Angeles and Oakland, have prohibited this archaic device and played a key role in the powerful public shift away from the inhumane treatment of elephants.

You might recognize Marker-Moore's name from the Los Angeles-based #payphoneography project which aimed to document and preserve the now-archaic devices.

Rather than toeing the baloney-on-toast "immersive experience" line trotted out by James Cameron et al, Scorsese's nostalgic homage to early cinema uses 3D as an archaic alienation device, reminding us that stereoscopy was around from the birth of the moving image, aligning the process with the Kinetoscopes and hand-tinted prints which have now become fossils of film history.

And last, that metal tube leading to its mouth is not some archaic torture device, it's a drinking straw.