quaint

Example Sentences

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That long-ago mishmash of horses, poets and peacemakers seems quaint today.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Cities are squalid crime hives that need to be tamed or abandoned in the Sheridanverse, whereas small towns and Western vistas are quaint canvases fertile with possibility.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

Perched on the edge of the rugged Yorkshire moors that inspired Emily Bronte to write her masterpiece "Wuthering Heights", the quaint village of Haworth has long been a place of literary pilgrimage.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

But neither was their three-night stay there last April a quaint camping experience.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

Some one had put it in the American Women's Club list as a quaint restaurant on the Paris quais as yet untouched by Americans, so we had to wait forty-five minutes for a table.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway