look ancient
Frequency: 7.09.8 per million words
Used to describe the appearance of being very old.
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Examples (10)
- The man looked positively ancient.
- The leather-bound book on the shelf looked ancient, its pages yellowed with age.
- Despite being only fifty, his weathered face made him look ancient.
- The castle ruins look ancient against the modern city skyline.
- Even the trees in this forest look ancient, with their gnarled branches reaching for the sky.
- That map looks so ancient; I wonder how old it really is.
- After the special effects were applied, the actor looked incredibly ancient on screen.
- The handwriting on the parchment looked ancient and was almost impossible to read.
- Some of these stone tools look so ancient they could be from the Stone Age.
- The artifact looked ancient, but carbon dating proved it was a modern forgery.