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:

  • As described by John McCabe in his old-fashioned and sometimes overly affectionate new biography, the street milieu that Cagney brought to the screen seems contemporary, too.

  • The brothers possess an old-fashioned, very personal notion of product.

  • A few critics like this old-fashioned heist flick starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones despite its unoriginality: "It works because it is made stylishly, because Connery and Zeta-Jones are enormously attractive actors, and because of the romantic tension between them" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A slew of critics finds the whole thing a bit off: Connery has 40 years on Zeta-Jones, and the highlight of the film is Zeta-Jones' spandex-clad "demi-soft-core tai chi" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) as she attempts to evade an optical security system in the process of ripping off a priceless gold mask.

  • Opulent, old-fashioned theaters such as those in Cienfuegos, Camagüey, and Matanzas, not to mention Havana’s magnificent Gran Teatro, are sights in their own right.

  • One of the town’s major year-round attractions is Diamond Tooth Gertie’s Gambling Hall, an old-fashioned (and legal) casino, where red-gartered dancing girls kick it up to a honky-tonk piano.


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