Sentence examples for obsolete word from inspiring English sources

Structure was an obsolete word.

The science that studies names in all their aspects is called onomastics (or onomatology an obsolete word).

He was also an odd, asexual type, best captured by that entirely obsolete word "nelly", a bit like the people Charles Hawtrey used to play.

Mr. Greenman, in his e-mail message, cited the "creepy-crawly feeling" evoked by the word, but said that if it was entirely up to him he'd get rid of "deliciate," a mostly obsolete word meaning to revel or delight.

Mr. Greenman, in his e-mail message, cited the "creepy-crawly feeling" evoked by the word — full disclosure: it has appeared 87 times in The New York Times in the past year, according to a database search) — but said that if it was entirely up to him he'd get rid of "deliciate," a mostly obsolete word meaning to revel or delight.

Scholarly works such as the OED and its supplements follow the canon of always using the earliest quotation and the latest for an obsolete word; in between, the quotations are selected for revealing facets of usage or for "forcing" a meaning.

The game possesses a surprising number of obsolete words that originated elsewhere but still flourish here.

Shakespeare is "big enough" to withstand having scenes cut and lines transposed or obsolete words changed for the sake of clarity, he said.

He compares his poems to jokes, to obsolete words, to "twenty-five rindles in a rustic Latin" in the margins of a medieval book.

At the end of our tour, the guide gave us a quiz, to see whether we could work out the definitions of a handful of obsolete words.

The alterations covered a large number of obsolete words and expressions and replaced Anglicisms with the diction then in vogue in the United States.