Sentence examples for quaint term from inspiring English sources
People have cellphones, but the men unselfconsciously use the quaint term "dames".
Why did The Times remove its pay wall? "It's a quaint term but it's public service," Mr. Geddes said.
MUCKRAKING is a quaint term, but it's useful to describe what Frank Owen is up to in "Clubland".
Why do lenders think that those bonds are called "below investment grade?" It's not just a formality or a quaint term.
"Pastoral care is a quaint term, but it has been declining in recent years as there are more students and fewer staff available to talk to them.
Cleaning Up the Pastures "Cow pie" is a quaint term, to be sure, but there is precious little else that is quaint about cow manure.
Note the perversion of quaint terms like "parlor" and "seashell," harking back to bygone days and vanished places, where people might visit with their neighbors or listen for the sound of the sea in a chambered nautilus.
Yee hah! Having lived through a decade or so in which quaint terms like "beheading", "torture" and "talent show" have regained purchase in common discourse, expressions which should be relegated to historical texts taught to no children left behind, it is no longer surprising to find that the only recently passed Bush era will have spawned living, breathing embodiments walking among us today.
Lately, we've been seeing new patterns of "food poisoning," a now-quaint term from the early 20th century, when dramatic illness was usually traced to toxins that had grown on spoiled foods such as a badly sealed jar of preserves or chicken salad left out too long in the summer heat.
The most powerful woman in New York, according to a recent ranking by the business publisher Crain's New York, Ms. Tighe lamented returning home from China to a skyline she now views only in the quaintest terms.
We hope that our major organs of news and opinion will not impede our struggle to render "oppression" as quaint a term as "illegitimacy" would be, if the latter term did not still cause harm.
