quaint
Example Sentences
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They’ve toured a number of quaint three-bedroom homes in neighborhoods where they can walk to restaurants and shops, and everything has been well below their budget of $300,000, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Placed against other modern threats posed by media consolidation, the notion of whether dyeing iconic black-and-white movies heralded the beginning of cinema’s end seems quaint.
From Salon • May 8, 2026
Years after resettling in west Altadena with Caitlin and having two children — Edie, 9, and John, 5 — tragedy struck the quaint family home: the Eaton fire.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
Instead, in a sign of the times that seems impossibly quaint in the harsh light of 2026, she issued a somber mea culpa.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
Admittedly, most of these older ideas would have seemed decidedly quaint by Eratosthenes’ time.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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