Sentence examples for archaic wording from inspiring English sources

For instance, earlier this year, when Stewart ridiculed the archaic wording of the Choice Program offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs which only offered medical coverage to individuals who lived within 40 "as-the-crow-flies" miles of certain Virginia facilities the statute was changed to include those living within 40 drivable miles.

Great archaic word, hag-ridden; means "afflicted by nightmares".

She lingers on Beckett's fondness for archaic words such as "arquebuse".

The translation, by Dennis Danielson, is meant to "free" archaic words and Latinate phrasing from "linguistic obscurity".

Song texts feature repetition of phrases or individual words and incorporate vocables as well as archaic words.

Shamans convey secret meanings to each other by using vocabularies that consist of archaic words and metaphors.

Google's Ngram shows that lots of archaic words appear to be resurfacing -- including gems like perchance, mayhaps and parlor.

Here, in no particular order, are a few: to wed: Who else but journalists would use this ridiculous, archaic word?

Farrell claimed that he chose the festival's name an archaic word meaning "extraordinarily impressive"—after he heard the word used in a Three Stooges film.

Canary Islands Spanish (a distinct dialect of Spanish) is spoken in the Canaries, and certain archaic words peculiar to the archipelago show Portuguese influences.

The longest archaic word in the English language without any vowels in it is "twyndyllyng" – an olde-worlde appropriated Welsh word meaning "twin".