How to Use archival in a Sentence

archival

adjective
  • The archival prints and puffy sleeves called to me, but the largest sizes sold out in seconds.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Wearing archival looks has become a steady trend among street style stars in the past few years.
    — Vogue, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Made from acid-free and archival-safe polypropylene, these won’t lift copy off of papers.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 29 Apr. 2021
  • There are no talking-head experts and no archival footage or photos.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
  • Thanks to his archival pile, the retrieval was made that much easier.
    — NBC News, 13 June 2018
  • Rare archival footage will also be shown throughout the series.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2020
  • She will, however, still be shown in archival footage throughout.
    — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Baker, a dark-haired man with a steely gaze, appears in a few of the archival images.
    — The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Its offerings include a mix of archival footage and new content.
    — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The film has great archival photos and film footage from Carter’s time with musicians.
    — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • But the archival research to locate the lost cities continued.
    — Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The program draws on resident accounts, archival footage and home movies.
    — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 7 July 2019
  • Through archival media and faithful recreations, viewers ride along on a trip that changed the world.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 8 Sep. 2020
  • See more archival photos from Brown’s first two terms in this piece from 2010.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
  • The image fades and a screen erupts with a montage of close-up archival battle footage and big-volume sound.
    — John Bordsen, ajc, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Despite her age, Leray is not ashamed to pay homeage to archival fashion.
    — Nandi Howard, Essence, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Rowling will not appear in the reunion special, but will be featured in archival footage.
    — NBC News, 23 Nov. 2021
  • One of the groups used archival observations to search for signs of the gas in the planet’s clouds, and didn’t find it.
    — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Frey is using that work, coupled with photos and other archival pieces, to guide the restoration now.
    — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Twitter account captioned archival footage of Lynn singing a twangy duet with the Count.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • An archival Coach style, the Swinger bag nods to the mini-bag moment of the early aughts.
    — Nandi Howard, Essence, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Dempsey's character was killed off in season 11 and has only been seen in archival footage since.
    — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Although not being broadcast live, the trial is the first of its kind to be filmed for archival purposes.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
  • For packrats with an archival stash of tapes, the CT200 is a no-brainer.
    — Paul Schrodt, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Instead the documentary rewinds through the archival footage to a kiss — before the time, before the crime.
    — Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • So far in 2020, Neil Young has put out at least three archival releases.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Parise told Spraker some of the records that go back to May 2014 are now kept on archival tapes.
    — Author: Naomi Klouda, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2018
  • So these archival prints really capture what life was like in the early 1900s.
    — Carisha Swanson, House Beautiful, 16 Sep. 2021
  • But this wasn't archival footage of White Southerners from the 1960s.
    — John Blake, CNN, 1 Aug. 2020
  • That the archival footage is repurposed in the film is in part a metaphor for the complexity and poignancy of the passing of time.
    — The New Yorker, 12 May 2021

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