Sentence examples for to be ancient from inspiring English sources

Traditions are often presumed to be ancient and unalterable.

I hope he lives to be ancient and writes many more books.

To be ancient, as Cotton Mather put it, was to be honorable.

Archaeological research shows the Caddoan tenancy of the area to be ancient.

Now that we're in March, his Jan . 26dismissal seems to be ancient history.

Indeed, aphorisms do not necessarily need to be ancient to be worth sharing.

The fish in the tank themselves enjoy a wallpapered scene — what appear to be ancient Greek ruins.

Hadley Rille, valley on the Moon, typical of the class of features known as sinuous rilles, which are believed to be ancient lava flow channels.

It is alarming to me that many students consider books like Mr. Oe's "Hiroshima Notes" and movies like "Dr. Strangelove" to be ancient history.

The relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and the plants they connect is now known to be ancient — around four hundred and fifty million years old.

The "rescued" artefacts, which included statuettes, busts and tablets bearing what appeared to be ancient script, were unloaded in Baghdad yesterday after being transported in three medium-sized tin trunks from Kut.