Sentence examples for were anachronistic from inspiring English sources
adjective
Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.
- If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.
Some have suggested that his ideas were anachronistic; others that he failed to follow the path dictated by the national interests of Germany and Italy.
The executives, Mel Karmazin of Viacom and Jack Fuller of Tribune, said the concentration limits were anachronistic and had contributed to new and intolerable business hardships.
Others were anachronistic old sorts who seemed to have no place in the 1990s but still boasted a dozen learned tomes to their name.
They can dissect what others have done, like Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, which merged multiple operations, realizing that the boundaries among the county's 130 municipalities, 109 police departments and 195 fire departments were anachronistic.
He said the figures were anachronistic because of the large numbers of people who were now watching programmes later on services like iPlayer, 4oD, or Netflix "The ratings system is insane and iniquitious," he told the Radio Times magazine.
Yet leaders in both political parties — for different reasons — continue to act as though race were anachronistic and irrelevant in a country where an African-American is the president.
But today, it's anachronistic.
"Straphangers" is anachronistic.
O.K., you're anachronistic.
