Thesaurus / antediluvian

antediluvian

How to use antediluvian in a sentence

In the best of times the permitting process is slightly antediluvian.

But carriages, dog-carts and antediluvian flys began to pour into The Park.

But I also find the petrified vertebra of an antediluvian animal upon which the Trojans have carved a large owls head.

TROY AND ITS REMAINSHENRY (HEINRICH) SCHLIEMANN

And we may fairly surmise that this Accadian culture (if such it be) is reflected from antediluvian tradition.

Been a long ride for ye, ain't it, ye old antediluvian handful of animated carpet-tacks?

I felt as if we were inside the skeleton of some antediluvian monster whose huge black ribs completely enfolded us.

We cast one more sorrowful look at the caves, and returned to our antediluvian carriages.

The people of Alabama will no longer vote the Democratic ticket simply because the “antediluvian” leaders say so.

POLITICS OF ALABAMAJ. C. (JOSEPH COLUMBUS) MANNING

It is the plural elohim who create the earth, and whose sons visit the daughters of antediluvian men.

Its deviser is, more than likely, as undiscoverable as the name of the valiant antediluvian who first tasted an oyster.

THE VERBALISTTHOMAS EMBLY OSMUN, (AKA ALFRED AYRES)

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985