How to Use fusty in a Sentence

fusty

adjective

• The trunk was full of fusty clothing.
• But her habit of getting great dirt, along with her lightning-fast publishing speed and gleeful prose style, made the age-old daily papers and trade publications seem fusty by comparison.
  — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
• Of course, the news out of Facebook and Meta and recent days has been all about the fusty, 18-year-old legacy app.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 31 July 2022
• At 30, Kurz took control of the People’s Party, the fusty center-right party that had long lagged in the polls.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2017
• So is the broader question of whether the street can shake off its image as a fusty redoubt of old-school haberdashery.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• For many, the bidet remains a fusty porcelain basin vaguely associated with the French.
  — Michael J. Coren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
• In the years since its midcentury heyday, flambéing, the art of setting alcohol on fire, has come to be thought of as a fusty gimmick.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• With his deadpan solemnity, stars-and-stripes stage sets and fusty bow ties, Mr. Russell looked more like a senator than a comic.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• And at the opening of this story, that stock happens to be GameStop, the somewhat fusty chain of shopping-mall retail stores that sell new and used gaming hardware and software.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean that the attire of the popular-everywhere-except-America sport is fusty.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2020
• These days, however, a fresh breeze is billowing through golf’s fusty clubhouse.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2021
• But there’s more to the allusion than the usual fusty Hollywood nostalgia.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Like so much about the fusty Senate, even the beverage exceptions are rooted in history.
  — Laurie Kellman, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2020
• The smell of fusty paper, damp cover binding, obliterated the stink of fast food and electricity.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
• Because a bit more quirkiness might not be all bad for this staid, tradition-laden, and wonderfully fusty old game.
  — John Guaspari, National Review, 26 Sep. 2021
• When the Super 8 motel chain underwent a major face lift a couple of years ago, its corporate leaders had some fun with the brand’s old, fusty image.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• Olly Alexander, the singer from the pop band Years & Years, plays Ritchie, a cocky aspiring actor who escapes a fusty suburban upbringing.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021
• Teams in the league play Twenty20, a television-friendly, three-hour version of the game that has eclipsed the multiple-day Test match format, which had given cricket its fusty and pedestrian image.
  — Mike Jakeman, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• For Rihanna, now in her third trimester of pregnancy, fusty notions of maternity wear were an easy target.
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2022
• Sports leagues need to get in lockstep with the rest of society and open their creaky, fusty doors to CBD products and even the medicinal use of marijuana to cope with physical pain and mental health issues.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Gone are the clapboard shutters and fusty colonial style of the common areas, which have been upgraded to embody a lighter, 1960s vibe of patterned fabrics and polished Carrara marble.
  — Paul Winner, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2022
• Take one of the six charming rooms, filled out with traditional (but not fusty) details—think hardword floors, thick, dark blue curtains, and the occasional fireplace—where you're guaranteed a good night's rest.
  — Paul Oswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2018
• Hand-washing is an easy way to take your must-have silk blouses and delicates from fusty to fresh in the comfort of your own home—while avoiding additional costs and chemicals used at local dry-cleaners.
  — Taylor Ayers, Marie Claire, 14 July 2021
• So drawing inspiration from movies, from other cool brands that are having experiential events, and pop culture, and bringing it into this space—which, for a while, has felt kind of fusty and old school.
  — Vogue, 27 June 2019
• Ghosn was brought in to shake up a fusty corporate culture and engineered an incredible turnaround, but his success and grandstanding sowed the seeds of his comeuppance.
  — Jeff Kingston For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 17 Jan. 2020
• Mortier replaced fusty opera directors with the likes of another 34-year-old, Peter Sellars.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• This old-school pasticceria has a few locations throughout the city, but this one is the most picturesque, with its charmingly fusty interior and outdoor tables that invite you to sit and linger for a while.
  — Andrea Whittle, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2019
• His sons, who have had to grow up with a cannier and more transactional understanding of celebrity, will continue to make Charles look fusty by comparison.
  — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2022
• Nathan is fairly ridiculous in his fusty attachment to family lore, but even characters who disagree with him don’t really want to eviscerate the guy.
  — oregonlive, 9 June 2021
• Airplane seats may seem fusty and clunky, but any design that works inside an airplane has to be lightweight and well engineered, especially when your seat can also be used as a flotation device.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019

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