Example sentences for: old-fashioned

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

  • Deciding that the normal rules of punctuation and grammar promoted old-fashioned sentiment, she came up with new rules of her own (question marks and exclamation points verboten ; evocative nouns and adjectives dangerous; adverbs excellent, because they're about nothing more than the relationship between words).

  • Or you could walk into a bookstore the old-fashioned way and buy it with doubloons.

  • In From One Language to Another (1986) Jan de Waard and Eugene A. Nida decry the “clinging to old-fashioned language even though the meaning has radically changed” and as a deplorable example points to the retaining of “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want” even though want no longer means to `lack' but rather `desire' and continues with, “Thus many persons understand this traditional rendering to mean, `The Lord is my shepherd whom I shall not want.

  • I had never noticed it before, but the reason that the old-fashioned bicycle was named the penny-farthing was that the large front wheel bore the same proportion to the tiny one at the rear as a (British) penny bore to a farthing.

  • In their hunger to acquire new customers, Net retailers have engaged in good old-fashioned price wars and have more generally made Net shoppers so accustomed to sizable discounts that paying anything close to retail feels like you're being robbed.


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