How to Use out of fashion in a Sentence

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  • Many of its artists have fallen out of fashion—and none are in the league of El Greco.
    Lance Esplund, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Googie style fell out of fashion in the 1970s as fast-food style favored dark colors, brick and mansard roofs.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The genre began to fall out of fashion when movies got sound, so by 1957, when The Parade was published, Lewen would have been resurfacing the form.
    Brittanie Shey, Chron, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But like a Celtic tribal band tattoo or wedge sneakers before it, the fox eye seems to be going out of fashion.
    Beth Ashley, refinery29.com, 1 July 2022
  • Wallpaper fell in and out of fashion over the next several decades, but Green always had enough work to survive.
    Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Bed styles constantly go in and out of fashion, so what's considered the coolest today may not be next season.
    Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Inez’s early-’90s kiss curls and chunky golden hoop earrings fade out of fashion, white neighbors move in, old locals move out.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 22 Jan. 2023
  • And as the Cold War matured, hibernation research fell out of fashion.
    Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Featuring metal eyelets, blue and red stripes on the soles, and the logo sewn onto the tongue, these iconic shoes will never go out of fashion.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The book’s essays cover objects that, for one reason or another, failed or fell out of fashion.
    Longreads, 29 Dec. 2022
  • As far as wood stains go, warm tones keep growing in popularity, as cooler hues of gray fade out of fashion.
    Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Why do certain things take off — a pop song, a jean cut, a movie genre — then fall out of fashion, only to mysteriously come back in vogue years later?
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The grand uptown apartments and their over-the-top aesthetics — Louis Quinze, chintz, baronial splendor — fell out of fashion, at least among the fashionable.
    Curbed, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The bise had already fallen out of fashion during the Black Death (for obvious reasons) and in the 19th century when prudishness was in vogue.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Salvaging materials fell out of fashion in the booming postwar decades, Palmisano said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Green-smelling perfumes, like all fragrance genres from ambers to chypres to ouds, have historically swung in and out of fashion with the zeitgeist.
    Town & Country, 19 Dec. 2022
  • As the neo-Classical style fell out of fashion, Lewis slipped into obscurity.
    Jessica Lynne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • One body type has to go out of fashion for another to come in; the huge boobs of the ’90s are replaced with the huge bums of the last decade, as if women’s bodies are able to contort and change of their own accord based on societal whims.
    Yomi Adegoke, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The marketing funnel model has been falling out of fashion for years, but as CX continues to be the number one driver of growth, its demise seems a fait accompli.
    Billee Howard, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Sweet irony perhaps, but the damage had been done and the resulting turmoil kept conglomerates out of fashion until a new, leaner form of merger mania returned in the ‘greed is good’ 1980s.
    Melanie Fine, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The former seems more likely, simply because multi-cam has largely fallen out of fashion outside of Disney Channel and Nick sitcoms for kids and tweens.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Traditionally defined as a neutral nail edged in white, the French manicure has fallen in and out of fashion since its 1970s inception.
    Amber Kallor, WSJ, 20 July 2022
  • After all, economic conditions, like bellbottoms, go in and out of fashion.
    James Berman, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Demna’s first big job out of fashion school was at Maison Margiela, known for being a laboratory of experimentation and a leader in avant-garde fashion.
    Nick Haramis Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Even if quitting has gone out of fashion, employers are going to work overtime on attracting and retaining talented workers this year, Klotz predicts.
    Byjane Thier, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Scientific dating fell out of fashion in the years that followed, as dating migrated from complex desktop websites to mobile apps, where users presented themselves with little more than a set of photos and a pithy tagline.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Moderates have lately been out of fashion in American politics.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • But with the advent of modern satellite technology enabling the gathering of overflight intelligence data from space, the use of surveillance balloons had been going out of fashion.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Goodman thinks that Barbiecore is an acknowledgment that Barbie really never went out of fashion.
    Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
  • These are projects that, for whatever reason (middling sales, negative reviews, a misunderstood stylistic shift) have fallen slightly out of fashion — or perhaps never reached it to begin with.
    Ryan Reed, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2023

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