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Example sentences for "oldfashioned"

Lexicographically close words:
old; olde; olden; older; oldest; olding; oldish; oldness; olds; oldster
  1. He began with a small, squat glass, which I believe is called an Oldfashioned glass, containing half cognac and half ryewhisky.

  2. She began using a toothpick, but it was not the oldfashioned gold one--just an ordinary wooden splinter.

  3. A horrible looking fellow, with a tortured face, he waved a pistol in front of me, ranting phrases reminiscent of oldfashioned soapbox oratory.

  4. Under a shiny alpaca coat he wore an oldfashioned collarless shirt whose neckband was fastened with a diamond stud.

  5. I remembered many great writers indulged in stimulants in the throes of composition, but I decided such a course might blunt the keen edge of my mind and afterall there was no better stimulant than plain oldfashioned perseverance.

  6. It was the regular oldfashioned document, full of hanging, shooting, drowning, and other extravagances.

  7. We were introduced and received with open arms, and sat down to a cold collation in good old English style, at which, for the first time since I left home, I fastened upon an oldfashioned sirloin of roastbeef.

  8. I followed him through the whole range of apartments, in which there was an appearance of staid respectability that quite won my heart, neither of them being any better furnished than one of our oldfashioned country houses.

  9. They used to do the shrieking business in oldfashioned novels.

  10. To the rear of this inn lies an oldfashioned bowling-green, whose area marks the site of the keep-tower of the erstwhile Castle of Lydbury, built to protect the episcopal demesne against the freebooters of the Welsh border.

  11. A pretty perspective of rustic dwellings, each with its narrow strip of garden aglow with oldfashioned flowers, flanks the quiet thoroughfare along which we take our way.

  12. Over the way stands The Bull, another oldfashioned hotel, with one of those large, rambling inn-yards, familiar to travellers of a bygone generation.

  13. A pretty, rustic spot is Acton Burnell, its comely thatched cottages, half submerged amidst oldfashioned country flowers, extending crosswise along the lanes, and never an inn to be found in all the place!

  14. The pleasant rural vicarage and oldfashioned Court-house farm are almost its only neighbours, but about a mile to the west stands Stoke House, a plain but good example of a brick-built Tudor residence.

  15. A quaint, oldfashioned garden forms a suitable setting to the mansion, whose silver-grey stone walls and ivied gables rise with charming effect above the flowering plants and creepers that adorn the balustrades in front.

  16. And my good mother was one of this oldfashioned cut, and, in all other respects, as worthy a lady as any in the kingdom.

  17. Helston itself is an oldfashioned town that has not many attractions for the modern tourist.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oldfashioned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.