Example Sentences

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“Never darken my door again!” he thunders old-fashionedly, as though he’s subconsciously aware that the writers Kirsi Vikman and Jimmy Karlsson are drawing on centuries of love stories about savage men and civilizing women.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2023

I’m kind of maybe old-fashionedly cleaved to the Kendrick side of that spectrum, and so that’s an ongoing story.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2017

By "well married," I mean that they should pair off old-fashionedly, for love, and marry what deserves to be loved, as well as what is lovely.

From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by Brown, John

French artist with a virtuous love-sorrow doesn't, for the B.P., belong to the actual; he's romantic, and old-fashionedly romantic, and remote; and the case is aggravated by the corresponding maturity of the heroine.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry

"Don't try to flirt with a middle-aged lady who is most old-fashionedly in love with her husband," she advised.

From The Clarion by Stevens, William Dodge