Example sentences for: retro

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

  • The situation is oddly appropriate: The idea of retro in a rut restores grooviness to its original meaning.

  • The movie "has, like the killing-machine beast itself, the brutal efficiency of single-mindedness" (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Voight's overwrought performance has a "kitschy glory" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). It all harks back to the "kind of retro, eek!

  • But these items, along with a sprinkling of kitchen ware, gardening supplies, and whimsical doodads such as an old-fashioned hand warmer, are essentially the amuse-bouches served up before the main course, which is a sleigh bed, a leather and cherry bentwood recliner, or some other hunk of massive retro furniture.

  • "We've just been sent a memo telling us we're not supposed to talk to the media," said the young male clerk at Barnes & Noble when I asked if he was selling a lot of copies of The Rules: Time Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right , the slender, much-publicized manual of retro dating strategy for women.

  • But it's also true, as never before, that the archives of sound and image constitute a continuous retro loop that people can--and will--draw on.


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