Sentence examples for rather ancient from inspiring English sources

These trees aren't strays, but rather ancient relics, left over from the cooler, wetter climate of the last Ice Age.

The future headquarters turned out to be a rather ancient and neglected barn, built by a Dutch settler some two hundred years ago.

Or, a rather ancient variety thereof.Mail scams date back at least to 1888 for chain letters, according to Snopes.com, a site which tries to verify urban myths.

But given some of the rather ancient rules at Cambridge University, I've no idea whether a woman is even allowed to hold the role.

"In the U.S. it's a rather ancient see" — the seat of a bishop's authority — "and the confluence of the native peoples and the missionaries created a rich ground for saints and martyrs".

Last summer when she was in London with the Mariinsky, she blew away the dust of decades in her passionately nuanced performance of the company's rather ancient production of Romeo and Juliet.

Memorably, the tycoon emptied his pockets of a huge wad of £50 notes, as well as a rather ancient-looking mobile phone.

There were plenty of tourists present while we were there, but unlike the UK, where there would have been health-and-safety protocols everywhere, there was just a rather ancient-looking donation box to which everyone contributed.

Not tired, but weary; not ill or unwell, but rather, somehow, ancient.

Thus drawings are made preferably from plaster casts, rather than ancient statues, which may have become soiled due to improper maintenance by the antiquarian.

"Roman Forum, Basilica Aemilia" (1910) resembles a giant's backyard strewn with large stone fragments of a rather fancy ancient building.