Use "antediluvian" in a sentence
antediluvian example sentences
antediluvian
1. The prevailing conditions today do not fully support these requirements and therefore our bodies are no longer able to survive as long as they used to, during the antediluvian age
2. To him the country was primitive, the food inedible, transport antediluvian, the villages decrepit, and Istanbul when we eventually arrived, was smelly, dirty, overcrowded and backward
3. Finally however, Nick excused himself for a moment, went out to his car and produced a bottle of almost antediluvian brandy
4. wouldn’t understand; most of their feelings were purely antediluvian
5. Then he had watched a trick film on video, the story of a little dinosaur looking for his mother in a grand, desolate, antediluvian world
6. Surely antediluvian men had been in these woods and had hunted antediluvian opossums and counted the ancient stars and had lived, loved and died, generation upon generation
7. The inhabitants of the antediluvian world, who, having been disobedient, and convicted of the most flagrant
8. The inhabitants of the antediluvian world, who, having been disobedient,
9. the antediluvian world, who, having been disobedient, and convicted of
10. The inhabitants of the antediluvian world, who, having been disobedient, and convicted of the most flagrant transgressions against God, were sentenced by his just law to destruction
11. The translation of Enoch, the antediluvian prophet, must be regarded similarly as a designed instruction on the part of Moses respecting the blessed destiny of the righteous
12. The keeper of the shelter in the middle of this tête-â-tête put a boiling swimming cup of a choice concoction labelled coffee on the table and a rather antediluvian specimen of a bun, or so it seemed
13. In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17 1/2 to 13 1/2, the proportion increasing and the disparity diminishing according as arbitrary future years were added, for if the proportion existing in 1883 had continued immutable, conceiving that to be possible, till then 1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in 1920 when Stephen would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 Bloom, being 1190 years alive having been born in the year 714, would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age, that of Methusalah, 969 years, while, if Stephen would continue to live until he would attain that age in the year 3072 A
14. ‘For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?’ said the ambassador’s wife
15. It was a small tortoise with Julia's initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slightly obscene object, now slipping impotently on the polished boards, now striding across the card-table, now lumbering over a rug, now withdrawn at a touch, now stretching its neck and swaying its withered, antediluvian head, became a memorable part of the evening, one of those needle-hooks of experience which catch the attention when larger matters are at stake
16. But go to the old Galleries, and look now at a great Christian painter's portrait of this fish; for he succeeds no better than the antediluvian Hindoo
17. Having already described him in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archaeological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view
18. Yet was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness;—yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an old, crutch-like, antediluvian, wheezing humorousness, not unstreaked now and then with a certain grizzled wittiness; such as might have served to pass the time during the midnight watch on the bearded forecastle of Noah's ark
19. "For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife
20. John Kain of Knox county, near the north bank of the Holston River, 5 miles above its junction with the French Broad, is a curious collection of mounds of earth, evidently the work of art, but of an almost antediluvian antiquity, if we may form any conjecture of their age, from that of the forest which grows around and upon them
