Example sentences for: retro

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It's retro by necessity, so as to avoid the anemic white-soul pablum that country became in the 1980s.

  • But although the company has gone to the dogs, its name now looks stylish in a retro way.


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