How to Use old-fashioned in a Sentence

old-fashioned

1 of 2 adjective

• Slip on a cozy sweater and enjoy this old-fashioned fun.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 23 June 2023
• His words of wisdom are tinged with wit and old-fashioned horse sense.
  — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2024
• There’s still plenty of money to be made the old-fashioned way.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
• Real old-fashioned opera, the more retro the better, has become the new cool.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• To get the classic cheese straw look be sure to use an old-fashioned cookie press.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2023
• In the three decades since its heyday, in the late eighties and early nineties, the term has grown to seem a bit old-fashioned.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
• Best of all, there are endless places to pick up an old-fashioned floral piece on the cheap.
  — Jermaine Gallacher, Vogue, 21 June 2023
• And the way to get there turns out to be an old-fashioned staple of the bathroom cabinet.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
• Today, thank-you notes made by hand are no longer seen as old-fashioned.
  — Brianna Kamienski, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• The snowy branches add an old-fashioned feel to the holidays.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023
• Hang out in the house, [go to] the spa, do the sauna, walk around with a robe on me, maybe drink an old-fashioned…That’s my energy right there.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2023
• There's no better way to enjoy blue crabs than in an old-fashioned crab boil.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 8 July 2023
• Strain into a double old-fashioned glass over a large ice cube.
  — Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2024
• The old-fashioned Square gets all gussied up for the season with lights and garland a plenty, plus a 12-foot Christmas tree.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 Nov. 2023
• This charming machine brings the old-fashioned joy of soft-serve ice cream right into your home.
  — Theresa Johnson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
• There's the more old-fashioned way of disciplining which involves time-outs and things like that.
  — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• What’s more, this player can be listened to the old-fashioned way through wired headphones or Bluetooth.
  — Ron Hart, SPIN, 8 Dec. 2023
• The clip promises an old-fashioned kind of special filled with music, dancing and a bunch of special guests.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
• Bring each box to life with old-fashioned figurines, tiny toys, or images from retro postcards.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2024
• Serve these layered lovelies in old-fashioned glasses to make the treat extra special.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 July 2023
• Instead, the center screen is controlled by an old-fashioned turn-and-click controller.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 11 July 2023
• The contender for this honor is one that might leave Kentuckians feeling faint: the brandy old-fashioned.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• An old-fashioned dressing table is tucked away in a corner.
  — Gregory Burnett, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
• Hansen was unpredictable — old-fashioned in some ways, even as an activist.
  — Michael Sims, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
• That’s a whole other thing among musicians whose old-fashioned work credo seems to be: more rock, less talk.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
• Barbie opens with a riff on 2001: A Space Odyssey where sullen little girls smash old-fashioned baby dolls (i.e., the idea of motherhood).
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 July 2023
• Even in this hectic, hurried world, some folks are still taking the time to make pie the old-fashioned way — working the dough, rolling out the crust, whipping egg white for meringue and so forth.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2024
• Even those that reached out to start-ups still used year-long contracts and other old-fashioned approaches that don’t fit the start-up model.
  — Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2023
• People need to develop their JV kids and do it the old-fashioned way, building up your program and teaching kids to play.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• The work is constructed out of an old-fashioned rotary telephone and a plaster lobster.
  — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 21 Apr. 2024

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old-fashioned

2 of 2 noun

• Nothing puts boots on the Moon quite like a good, old-fashioned space race.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
• Seems reasonable to just go back to the old-fashioned way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• But that made everything hinge on me in a sort of an old-fashioned...
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
• Bruce Hopper grabs a bucket to be hung from a sugar maple tree the old-fashioned way.
  — John Tlumacki, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• Sometimes, old-fashioned names are in, sometimes the new and modern takes over.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
• Despite new trends, bands are building their audiences the old-fashioned way: by putting on a hell of a live show.
  — Marcos Hassan, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2023
• Mostly, the film gets by on its handsome sheen, and on the current scarcity of something so proudly old-fashioned on the market.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
• Guests peered at select documents in glass cases and perused the gift shop for old-fashioned campaign garb.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• The liquid inside the bottle was golden yellow, and the top resembled an old-fashioned glass stopper.
  — Alice Robb, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2023
• In contrast, no such control is possible with old-fashioned cash – now recognised by many as a beacon of freedom.
  — Richard Werner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• There are also homemade soups, salads and sandwiches, and old-fashioned milkshakes and ice cream sodas for dessert.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
• Per some old-fashioned Googling, the appellation is said to be a nod to Sisyphus, whose interminable push workout surely earned him a pair of massive yams.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
• The mission of Buy Nothing, which had a local cult following, was to revive old-fashioned sharing among neighbors.
  — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
• This gas fireplace takes cues from old-fashioned wood-burning stoves, with decorative antique-style details on the feet and front panel.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
• Say goodbye to everything from old-fashioned fixtures, plumbing and tiles to '80s color schemes and clunky vanity mirrors.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 24 Feb. 2023
• Instead of going through rigorous police training like his father (Corbin Bernsen) and becoming a detective the old-fashioned way, Shawn pretends to be a psychic.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• For more than a decade, the district attorney for Alameda County, where this city is the center of gravity, prosecuted crime the old-fashioned way, with stiff sentences and the reliable support of law-enforcement unions at election time.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
• But so do a son’s longing for his missing father, a daughter’s wavering allegiance to old-fashioned parents, and the limits and possibilities of female friendship.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• Instead of the two-year process required to put together rockets the old-fashioned way, Relativity Space’s patented fourth-generation Stargate 3D metal printers—one of which is pictured here—will let its team go from plan to product in two months.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2023
• Many commentators have attributed its success to Hong Kong audiences’ hankering for an old-fashioned system where truth and justice prevail.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 26 Feb. 2023
• In recent years, a backlash to digital and automated projection has created a flourishing niche market for old-fashioned film.
  — Lane Brown, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
• While there had been some progressive stagings there, the elaborate, old-fashioned naturalism of Franco Zeffirelli and Otto Schenk reigned, particularly in the standard repertory.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Mockumentary realism was sliding toward old-fashioned farce.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• Now, civility and compromise are considered too old-fashioned, particularly among many younger political activists.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Nothing puts boots on the Moon quite like a good, old-fashioned space race.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
• Seems reasonable to just go back to the old-fashioned way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• But that made everything hinge on me in a sort of an old-fashioned...
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
• Bruce Hopper grabs a bucket to be hung from a sugar maple tree the old-fashioned way.
  — John Tlumacki, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• Sometimes, old-fashioned names are in, sometimes the new and modern takes over.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
• Despite new trends, bands are building their audiences the old-fashioned way: by putting on a hell of a live show.
  — Marcos Hassan, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2023

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