Example sentences for: nostalgic

How can you use “nostalgic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Does Lee want us to giggle at this cliché-spouting hack or to feel nostalgic for an era in which tabloids were so unself-consciously purple?

  • It makes one nostalgic for the fear of LSD in the water, fluoride in the water, and saltpeter in the cafeteria food, presumably to create a docile population of human slaves with excellent teeth who keep hallucinating that they're uninterested in sex.

  • America may be waxing nostalgic over Dylan, but there has never been a musician less concerned with nostalgia.

  • Also on the harbor, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (1675 Lower Water Street,) is housed in a turn-of-the-century ship chandlery, setting the tone with a nostalgic whiff of tarred rope in the restored shop on the ground floor.

  • And listen to Miss Manners herself, who has to admit there has been progress: "When the nostalgic moan about the decline of etiquette, Miss Manners turns contrary and points out that it is only recently that frank expressions of prejudice have become socially unacceptable."


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