How to Use modish in a Sentence

modish

adjective
  • He wore a modish gray suit and hat.
  • From furs to chic trench coats, this season is all about bundling up with a modish twist.
    — Nandi Howard, Essence, 6 Dec. 2019
  • But that modish phrase does not quite capture what is going on.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The venue’s powder blue skate floor is now shiny hardwood, and the colorful shapes that once adorned the walls were phased out for modish black paint.
    — Zoie Matthew, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 Oct. 2017
  • An interest in modish office decor is a long-standing feature of high finance.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • Later came the crown of modish white hair, the DeLorean trademark.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 29 July 2021
  • This has less to do with the Christian proposition and more to do with a modish and unthinking progressivism.
    — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Swim through a modish dining room awash in blue-purple light and take a seat at San Antonio’s swankiest restaurant.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Hadid styled the outfit with her usual unstudied flair, throwing on modish ankle boots, chunky rings, and oversize hoop earrings.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The low supply of engineers and other critical occupations led to lucrative pay and tons of modish perks.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • In the early days, modish pandemonium prevailed at Kings Road.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • This two-week series will highlight wellness events ranging from the trendiest yoga and pilates classes to modish beauty treatments and even a chocolate-making class.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2026
  • The value of the shoes in the secondhand marketplace—the price tag on their clout—was about fifteen hundred dollars, a function of both their scarcity and their modish chunkiness.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • Kimpton Armory Hotel is the ideal place to unwind after dinner for panoramic views with a modish atmosphere.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
  • This Mario Bava film takes place in a Rome fashion house, with scenes of runway shows and dress fittings displaying an entire look book of modish dresses.
    — Caitlin Morton, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Thanks to a modish navy mini and black leather racing jacket combo, Venus Williams stole the show in Louis Vuitton’s front row in a look that kept things short and sweet.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Pierro’s Italian Bistro provides a modish ambiance and classic Italian favorites.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • This modish label curates inspired, authentic music on the gloomier end of the spectrum, from paranoid synth-punk and noise to visionary experimental.
    — The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • Instead, this film is nothing more than a modish, superficial contrivance fitting celebrities of color into a Millennial wet dream.
    — Armond White, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
  • In the nineteen-thirties, Nichols’s images reflected a more overt sense of national identity—federal work programs, cars, modish fashion.
    — Sarah Blackwood, The New Yorker, 18 July 2021
  • Japanese, slight in build, sporting a gray T-shirt, with inky hair cut into a modish bowl, neither Greenberg nor Bowyer yet knew the man’s name — Ippei Mizuhara.
    — David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The entire Catholic Magisterium should not be subject to the modish preferences of current and future occupants of the Petrine office.
    — John Hirschauer, National Review, 10 June 2019
  • At no point during their pumping New York performance did the group play up their inherent novelty, or attempt to appear particularly modish.
    — Bobby Olivier, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The double-breasted, peak late topper recalled the modish suiting sported by Jackie Kennedy, while a crisp, collarless top and skinny black trousers were polished additions.
    — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Although Citizen is marketed as a means to protect communities, Frame talks about it as an example of a more modish preoccupation—self-care.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • His output can be seen as a kind of wilderness preserve, in which stray fragments of musical history are allowed to roam free, without having to worry about adapting themselves to any modish system or sensibility.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In a modish white leather jacket and pants combo, actor Laura Harrier provided a counterpoint to Williams’s exploration of pattern.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Quaint Reagan-era scrolling was a precursor to and eventually a subset of trolling, today’s modish rhetorical performance, which was invented in Usenet groups at the end of the ’80s.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2018
  • These work in surprising harmony with the interiors that Francine worked on with the modish decorator Madeleine Castaing, famed for her charming late nineteenth-century revival schemes.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 1 June 2018
  • Still, Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness feels like a worthy winner—and having been snapped up already by the modish distribution outfit Neon, expect to see it on a cinema screen near you soon.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 May 2022

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