Examples of “ancient” in a Sentence

adj Belonging to a very distant, long-past time, especially before the Middle Ages.

• Archaeologists found coins from an ancient civilization buried beneath the field.
• The museum houses artifacts from ancient Egypt.
• They studied ancient Greek philosophy at university.

adj Very old.

• The ancient oak in the churchyard has stood there for centuries.
• My laptop is so ancient that it takes ten minutes to start.
• Grandpa still drives that ancient old truck.

noun A person who lived in the distant past, especially in classical Greece or Rome.

• The ancients built enormous temples without any modern machines.
• Scholars still read what the ancients wrote about the stars and the sea.
• The ancients believed the earth was at the center of the universe.