in-a-sentence.com, use old-fashioned in a sentence

Use old-fashioned in a sentence

Sentences starting with old-fashioned

Old-fashioned bookcases lined with musty books filled the walls, except where a steel engraving of a legal light or a railroad map of the State was hung, and the Honourable Hilary sat in a Windsor chair at a mahogany table in the middle. [9]

Sentences ending with old-fashioned

It was a picture of an old-fashioned? [5]
But probably I'm old-fashioned. [4]
Perhaps you have noticed," she added, smiling a little, "that we are very serious and old-fashioned. [9]
Not that Polly meant to be any different, or was, at heart; but, you know, she was so much absorbed in her new life of splendor, and perhaps I was a little old-fashioned. [4]
He liked its being old-fashioned. [8]
When approaching the bedside of one whom an all-wise President --I mean an all-wise Providence--well, anyway, it's the same thing--has seen fit to afflict with disease--well, the rule is simple, even if it is old-fashioned. [5]
But his methods are old-fashioned. [10]

More example sentences with the word old-fashioned in them

He's a thousand years old, which is about as old-fashioned as I mean, and as wise, and as plain to read as though you'd write the letters of words as big as a date-palm. [11]
It was furnished with delightful old-fashioned things that seemed to express, at every turn, the aristocratic and uncompromising personality of the owner who had lived so long in their midst. [9]
From queer old-fashioned windows along the curve projected boxes of bright flowers, and over the edge of one of these boxes hung the head and shoulders of a cat--asleep. [5]
An ancestry of wild riders naturally enough bequeaths also those other tendencies which we see in the Tartars, the Cossacks, and our own Indian Centaurs, and as well, perhaps, in the old-fashioned fox-hunting squire as in any of these. [6]
Some of these were of the old-fashioned, classic type, and others new examples of a national architecture seeking to find itself,--white and yellow colonial, roughcast modifications of the Shakespearian period, and nondescript mixtures of cobblestones and shingles. [9]
The young Doctor was to take the two Annexes in a wagon, and the Tutor was to drive Number Five in a good old-fashioned chaise drawn by a well-conducted family horse. [6]
When the cider was heated in the brown stone pitcher, there was difference of opinion whether there should be toast in it; some were for toast, because that was the old-fashioned way, and others were against it, "because it does not taste good" in cider. [4]
If the Saadat was an old-fashioned overlord, I shouldn't be here. [11]
Behind the store was an old-fashioned garden, set about by a neat stone wall, hidden here and there by the masses of lilac and currant bushes, and at the south of it was a great rose-covered boulder of granite. [9]
Behind the crowd was a row of old-fashioned brick houses, on the walls of which were patterned, by the cold electric light, the branches of the bare elms ranged along the sidewalk. [9]
This is a very dangerous confession, for fifty years make everything hopelessly old-fashioned, without giving it the charm of real antiquity. [6]
When he stood up to open a door--he opened all the doors with old-fashioned latches--he was portentously tall, and when stretched on the rug before the fire he seemed too long for this world--as indeed he was. [4]
We remained there until the spring, and then removed to a house more immediately in the town, a charming old-fashioned mansion, once lived in by John de Witt, where he had a large library and every domestic comfort during the year of his sojourn. [6]
Perhaps it is true in these days that the old-fashioned torture known as remorse is rarely experienced except under the name of detection. [4]
There were great trees with swings, groves, orchards where the late apples glistened between the leaves, an old-fashioned flower garden loath to relinquish its blooming. [9]
The first object to which my eyes were drawn was an old-fashioned well-sweep. [6]
Austen had undertaken to throw young Tom out of a front window, which was a large, old-fashioned one,--and after Herculean efforts had actually got him on the ledge, when something in the street caught his eye and made him desist abruptly. [9]
The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel--half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. [5]
I sing them things from comic operas--Offenbach, Sullivan, and the rest; and if they are very sentimentally inclined I sing them good old-fashioned love-songs full of the musician's tricks. [11]
Britain has stood the test, even from the old-fashioned militarist point of view, since it is apparent that no democracy can wage a sustained great war unless it is socialized. [9]
It is almost the only one remaining of the old-fashioned Spanish haciendas, where the old administration prevails. [4]
Owing partly to the old-fashioned ideas of Dr. Gilman, and partly to the conservatism of its vestry, the institutionalism of St. John's was by no means up to date. [9]
There, still weathering the elements, was the old-fashioned latticed summer-house, but the fruit-trees that I recalled as clouds of pink and white were gone.... A touch of poignancy was in these memories. [9]
Mrs. Merrill insisted that Jethro should pour out his coffee in what she was pleased to call the old-fashioned way. [9]
There is a tall, old-fashioned silver urn, a sugar-bowl of the period of the Empire, in which the poems sent to be read are placed by unseen hands. [6]
On the centre table, in addition to a ponderous Bible, was one of those old-fashioned carafes of red glass tipped with blue surmounted by a tumbler of blue tipped with red. [9]
In the Rostovs' staid old-fashioned house the dissolution of former conditions of life was but little noticeable. [2]
A---- said that she should prefer the good old-fashioned nose-ring, as we find it described and pictured by travellers. [6]
They were low set, broad and square, with heavy-studded, old-fashioned doors. [11]
She took a seat by the window, and an involuntary exclamation of pleasure escaped her as her eyes fell upon the little, old-fashioned flower garden beneath it. [9]
He had hired rooms in an old-fashioned three-story house. [6]
He had the reputation of the old-fashioned New York merchants, to whom her father belonged, for integrity and conservatism. [4]
He did not reckon with a voice which, under cover of easy deliberation, had a convincing quality; with a manner of old-fashioned courtesy and stateliness. [11]
Suppose, after you read it once in the old-fashioned way, you read it once more with Judge Douglas's version. [7]
She had managed rather marvellously to redeem one room from the old-fashioned severity of the rest of the house, the library behind the big "parlour. [9]
One of his pupils in that school, the Honorable Josiah Gardiner Abbott, has favored me with the following account of his recollections:-- The school of which Mr. Emerson had the charge was an old-fashioned country "Academy. [6]
She made a pretty old-fashioned curtsey to the Judge, then held out her hand, as though to reassert her democratic equality. [11]
That is the peaceful way, the old-fashioned way, the way in which the fathers themselves set us the example. [7]
It was primly painted now, its posts crowned with the carved pineapples; behind the fence old-fashioned flowers were in bloom, lupins and false indigo; and the retaining wall of blue-grey slaty stone, which he had laid that spring, was finished. [9]
One of them, over which she lingered, was of a charming, old-fashioned garden spattered with sunlight, and shut out from the world by a high brick wall. [9]
She drew it out, unwound the flannel, and held to the light an old-fashioned revolver, the grease glistening along its barrel. [9]
It was not otherwise inapt, for there was something antique about him, though he wasn't old; a flavour, an old-fashioned repose and self-possession. [11]
It was an old-fashioned saber of a kind no longer in general use. [2]
It killed the old-fashioned keel-boating, by reducing the freight-trip to New Orleans to less than a week. [5]
He was rather old-fashioned in his views. [11]
They had an old-fashioned energy which had long been unfamiliar to me. [5]
She was an old-fashioned cruiser, carrying guns, and when she passed another vessel she hoisted the British flag. [11]
I want to offer thanks and homage to the chairman for this innovation which he has introduced here, which is an improvement, as I consider it, on the old-fashioned style of conducting occasions like this. [5]
On the gold of the old-fashioned setting were a P and an l, the initial letters of his motto "Plus ultra. [10]
It was one of the old-fashioned mansions on Washington Square, built at a time when people attached more importance to room and comfort than to outside display--a house that seemed to have traditions of hospitality and of serene family life. [4]
For the success of the dinner does not necessarily depend upon the talk being brilliant, but it does depend upon its being general, upon keeping the ball rolling round the table; the old-fashioned game becomes flat when the balls all disappear into private pockets. [4]
In the nurseries of old-fashioned Orthodoxy there was one religion in the world,--one religion, and a multitude of detestable, literally damnable impositions, believed in by uncounted millions, who were doomed to perdition for so believing. [6]
Under the name of "Remonstrants" and "Contra-Remonstrants,"--Arminians and old-fashioned Calvinists, as we should say,--the adherents of the two Leyden professors disputed the right to the possession of the churches, and the claim to be considered as representing the national religion. [6]
In an avenue not far from the Luxembourg he had a small hotel with a fine old-fashioned garden behind it, and here distinguished artists, musicians, actors, and actresses came at times. [11]
The hotel, a much overgrown and altered farm-house, stood, surrounded by great trees, in an ancient clearing that sloped gently to the water's edge, where an old-fashioned, octagonal summerhouse overlooked a landing for rowboats. [9]
But for the most part they were old-fashioned, home-keeping New-Yorkers, who were sufficient to themselves, and cared little for the set into which Edith's marriage had more definitely placed her. [4]
For a few moments the silence was broken only by the ticking of the old-fashioned clock. [9]
I think I learned from him to express myself in good old-fashioned English, and without making as much fuss about it as our Fourth of July orators and political haranguers were in the habit of making. [6]
She crossed the lawn, took a path through the trees that bordered it, and came suddenly upon an old-fashioned garden in all the freshness of its early morning colour. [9]
Although it was late in the season, the old-fashioned, rambling hotel was well filled, and people interested Honora as well as scenery--a proof of her human qualities. [9]
The aunts are just a little old-fashioned, that is all. [4]
So incredibly short it was, and so incredibly stiff, that it reminded her of the needle points on the cylinder of an old-fashioned music-box; and she wondered, if it were properly inserted, what would be the resultant melody. [9]
By the door, inside, was fastened a small old-fashioned looking-glass frame, with two little fragments of the original mirror lodged down in one corner of it. [5]
Perhaps we agreed in too many things,--I suppose if we could have had a good hard-headed, old-fashioned New England divine to meet with us it might have acted as a wholesome corrective. [6]
The man, big in build, large-headed, wore an old-fashioned blue swallow-tailed coat with brass buttons, a stock, and coonskin hat, though it was summer, and the thumping of William Wetherell's heart told him that this was Jethro Bass. [9]
The men dress in a solid, old-fashioned way. [4]
In former years I used to keep a little gold by me in order to ascertain for myself exactly the amount of pleasure to be got out of handling it; this being the traditional delight of the old-fashioned miser. [6]
On the whole, I think the old-fashioned New England divine softening down into Arminianism was about as agreeable as any of them. [6]
But I suppose I belong to another age, and must not attempt to judge the present by my old-fashioned standards. [6]
Many of the houses are old-fashioned and square, some with colonial doors and porches, irregularly aligned on the main street, which is arched by ancient and stately elms. [4]
He argues from his comparison of texts in a perfectly sober, old-fashioned way, as his ancestor Peter Bulkeley might have done. [6]
These buildings at Highlawns, framed by great trees, were old-fashioned and picturesque, surrounding three sides of a court, with a yellow brick wall on the fourth. [9]
She stood beside her old-fashioned spinning-wheel, and quite near me. [4]
Down deep in her nature was an inalienable loyalty, was a simple, old-fashioned feeling that "they two," she and Eglington, should cleave unto each other till death should part. [11]
He did more; he threw up into the open window of her room a screw-driver, with which she took the old-fashioned door off its hinges, after half an hour's work. [11]
This appendix could hardly have been written earlier than towards the end of the last century, to judge by the paper, the stiff, old-fashioned handwriting and, more surely still, by the fact that the writer mentions vaccination as a new discovery. [10]
The old-fashioned ship-life had returned, now that we were no longer in sight of land. [5]
The Dutch governor had begun to build an old-fashioned wall with a narrow gateway, so fitted as to seem part of it. [11]
It was a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western kind. [5]
We get no good old-fashioned love-stories from them. [4]
He's got a good head, and he wanted to study for the ministry when they were all living together out on the farm; but his father had the old-fashioned ideas about that. [8]
Much of what Gaston had said was here in stately old-fashioned language. [11]
Opposite, in gilt frame, grandpa and grandma, at thirty and twenty-two, stiff, old-fashioned, high-collared, puff-sleeved, glaring pallidly out from a background of solid Egyptian night. [5]
I sometimes long for one of the old-fashioned talks before your smoldering logs! [4]
And so he followed her out of the study into the wide entry of the old-fashioned country-house. [6]
Supper was a decorous but heterogeneous meal of the old-fashioned sort that gives one the choice between tea and cocoa. [9]
There were the customary two beds in the room, one in one end, the other in the other, about an old-fashioned brass-mounted, single-barreled pistol-shot apart. [5]
I think I can speak dispassionately upon this matter, because in the little while that I have got to remain here I can get along very well with these old-fashioned forms, and I don't propose to make any trouble about it at all. [5]
I couldn't see but a little ways, but I went poking along over rough ground for a quarter of a mile or more, and then I run across a big old-fashioned double log-house before I noticed it. [5]
People read his books and quarrel over 'em, and the critics are all against him, and a regular flaying, with salt and vinegar rubbed in afterward, will tell more with people who like good old-fashioned fiction than anything else. [8]
She thought of bleeding,--the old-fashioned remedy still used on the prairies--but she decided to wait a little. [11]
You know that big, square, old-fashioned corner chamber, with the high-poster. [4]
It was to be a shawl, or rather a large handkerchief, such as she could pin across her neck and shoulders, in the old-fashioned country manner. [14]
She remained gazing at Lise, who paid no attention to her entrance, but stood with her back turned before an old-fashioned bureau with a marble top and raised sides. [9]
Manitou showed itself antagonistic to progress; it was old-fashioned, and primitively agricultural. [11]
The bed is an old-fashioned, dark mahogany four-poster. [6]
But it has an old-fashioned love for the modest and unobtrusive virtues, and an abiding faith that they will win over the strained and strident displays of life. [4]
It was simply a report of certain things which had happened out of doors, made by an observing neighbor, whose talk seemed to be of a piece with the diffused fragrance and light and life of the old-fashioned garden. [4]
There is here a note of country life, of retirement, suggestive of the old-fashioned "country-seat. [4]
The ticking of a huge, old-fashioned repeating-watch on the wall was in unison with these. [11]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word old-fashioned in a sentence? How do you use old-fashioned in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word old-fashioned? It contains example sentences with the word old-fashioned, a sentence example for old-fashioned, and old-fashioned in sample sentence.