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Six example sentences with anachronistic, each labelled with its topic.
A wristwatch on a Roman centurion is the most anachronistic detail in the film, and viewers spotted it immediately.
Movies
The restorer noticed an anachronistic pigment in the sky, one no workshop could have mixed before the eighteen forties.
Art
The costume designer let the queen wear a zipper, an anachronistic choice that historians in the audience could not ignore.
History
Shakespeare's striking clock in ancient Rome is famously anachronistic, since mechanical clocks arrived thirteen centuries later.
Literature
The medieval strategy game lets peasants build cannons in the year 900, an anachronistic touch that historians on the forum mock.
Gaming
The replica castle has anachronistic steel window frames, which no builder of the twelfth century could have made.
Architecture
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