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How to use the word old-fashioned in a Sentence?

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Amidst the confusion and chaos of this world, I often question why I should remain on this planet. Yet, deep within, I possess a compass gifted by a higher force. Though unconventional and old-fashioned, it points me away from the relentless loop of society, guiding me towards a path that resonates with truth and purpose.

Yvonne Padmos

added by Freelancer
3 months ago

I like to see a whole menu, i'm old fashioned.

Jeremy Wladis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I already called all of my friends in Texas and told them how to cast their vote, and I am deeply contemplating taking a bus load of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking because, for the good of America, we have to get him out of office.

Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's good in some ways, but not in baseball. Baseball's an old-fashioned game, in real high stakes situation like the World Series, we need the most accurate call possible you know.

David Baird

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are long overdue to phase out inefficient old-fashioned light bulbs as this progress was illegally delayed by the President Donald Trump administration for more than two years, lED bulbs, which will replace the old incandescents, use one-sixth the amount of energy to deliver the same amount of light and last at least 10 times longer.

Joe Vukovich

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That's a good old-fashioned playoff game right there.

Kyrie Irving

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What you're talking about is old fashioned snake-oil salesmen.

Alex Jones

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We know kids today are more anxious than ever, and we know at least some of the reason why is that they don't have enough downtime, i'm all for some structure during this period, for both kids' sanity and parents', but I think we should balance it out with some good old fashioned messing around the house.

Elissa Strauss

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People laugh at the old-fashioned techniques of the older guys, but when it happens we come out slightly better, because you're not caught with midcaps and liquidity. It's liquidity that really gets you in these markets.

Sean Taylor

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When it happens, you can't do much about it, people laugh at the old-fashioned techniques of the older guys, but when it happens we come out slightly better, because you're not caught with midcaps and liquidity. It's liquidity that really gets you in these markets.

Sean Taylor

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Based on whats happened tonight, theres a lot of work to be done: forensically and just old-fashioned investigative work.

Barry Staubus

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Beth was old style, old-fashioned. So, you know, that means the tree and the presents. All the stockings hung up... SoIm trying to keep that exact tradition.

Beth Chapman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Michael Wolff, you may not care to know the facts, but I do, so, here they are : I wrote my questions on a legal pad, the old-fashioned way, on the way to D.C. in a car. No one from the White House -- or, for that matter, from Fox -- weighed in on my interview at all, period.

Martha MacCallum

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

By engaging in the conduct alleged in the complaint, Avenatti was not acting as an attorney, a suit and tie doesn't mask the fact that at its core, this was an old-fashioned shakedown.

Geoffrey Berman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Order and decorum and dignity are not just old-fashioned pleasantries.

Amy Berman Jackson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

People liked what it stood for, what it meant, we weren't just changing it from Confederate because it was too long or too cumbersome or old-fashioned. We were changing it because it stood for something that we didn't care to uplift. And if we're going to replace it, let's replace it with something we do want to uplift.

Tiffany Friesen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He is an old-fashioned father who is hard-headed and does not talk much, it would be too bad for him if a family member were not around.

Ken Kirioka

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I just have never been comfortable talking about my sexuality, i think it was easier with the movie because it was quite a few years later after the book. But it's still not my comfort zone. I was just brought up that way. I'm very old-fashioned.

Tab Hunter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If you're going to sell your body for money, you just don't have a reputation. I may be old fashioned, I dunno.

Rudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Not only is this discovery a perfect example of the importance of good old-fashioned natural history field work, but we have the opportunity to develop a conservation plan based on our findings, the ability to take our research and turn it into tangible conservation efforts is thrilling. It is a commitment to preserving the uniqueness of the Baja California Peninsula.

Scott Tremor

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Any of you who’ve read my book about 'what happened' know that I think misogyny and sexism was part of that campaign—it was one of the contributing factors, some of it was old-fashioned sexism and the refusal to accept the equality of women, and certainly the equality of women’s leadership.

Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Some of it was old-fashioned sexism and the refusal to accept the equality of women, and certainly the equality of women’s leadership.

Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We have guys carrying duffle bags full of cash right up to our cashier’s window, and we’ve had to install a safe the size of Fort Knox to hold it all, not that I mind good old fashioned cold cash, but Bitcoin is making it so much more practical for those same clients to live out their sexual fantasies here at The Bunny Ranch without literally having to carry a lot of excess baggage.

Dennis Hof

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think however smart you are, experience matters, i ’m old fashioned that way.

Professor Kennedy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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