How to Use old-fashioned in a Sentence

old-fashioned

1 of 2 adjective
  • His words of wisdom are tinged with wit and old-fashioned horse sense.
    — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Today, thank-you notes made by hand are no longer seen as old-fashioned.
    — Brianna Kamienski, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • Strain into a double old-fashioned glass over a large ice cube.
    — Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2024
  • There’s still plenty of money to be made the old-fashioned way.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 30 Oct. 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
  • To get the classic cheese straw look be sure to use an old-fashioned cookie press.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 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
  • The snowy branches add an old-fashioned feel to the holidays.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Real old-fashioned opera, the more retro the better, has become the new cool.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • This charming machine brings the old-fashioned joy of soft-serve ice cream right into your home.
    — Theresa Johnson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Hansen was unpredictable — old-fashioned in some ways, even as an activist.
    — Michael Sims, Washington Post, 29 July 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
  • 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
  • Serve these layered lovelies in old-fashioned glasses to make the treat extra special.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 July 2023
  • The shadow is like an old-fashioned editing wipe, shifting between movie scenes.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • There's the more old-fashioned way of disciplining which involves time-outs and things like that.
    — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Instead, the center screen is controlled by an old-fashioned turn-and-click controller.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 11 July 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
  • So, for most writers, that sounds like a much better deal than the old-fashioned residual system.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 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
  • The work is constructed out of an old-fashioned rotary telephone and a plaster lobster.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 21 Apr. 2024
  • From luxurious glamping to pitching a tent the old-fashioned way, each trip may need its checklist of what to bring.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Despite the minimalist, all-white color scheme, the coconut cake is an over-the-top, old-fashioned pleasure.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • And the characteristic old-fashioned rain gutters and the air extractor above the rear window were nowhere to be found.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
  • The show in its totality is a love letter to the big, old-fashioned Broadway musical.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Flavors that are present in this creation were inspired by Montgomery’s favorite cigar and the drink can be paired with an old-fashioned cocktail.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Oct. 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 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

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
  • Sometimes, old-fashioned names are in, sometimes the new and modern takes over.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 15 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The liquid inside the bottle was golden yellow, and the top resembled an old-fashioned glass stopper.
    — Alice Robb, Vogue, 28 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
  • The mission of Buy Nothing, which had a local cult following, was to revive old-fashioned sharing among neighbors.
    — WIRED, 23 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Now, civility and compromise are considered too old-fashioned, particularly among many younger political activists.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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

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