Sentence examples for an old-fashioned custom from inspiring English sources

No sooner had his factory for Cohnfeld gone up than Maxey Cobb died a painful death from colic brought on by the use of a purgative just before a race, which The Buffalo Daily Courier described as "an old-fashioned custom not advocated by most modern horsemen".

To them I reply, "If you're offended by this old-fashioned custom, then don't be shy about whipping out your wallet instead".

If that is the center of Islam, then why don't they wear burkhas?" He concluded, with a rueful smile, "I think the burkha is just an old-fashioned Afghan custom".

If that is the center of Islam, then why don't they wear burkhas?" He concluded, with a rueful smile, "I think the burkha is just an old-fashioned Afghan custom". One afternoon in Dasht-e-Qala, two women, one in a deep-violet burkha and the other wearing emerald green, floated past, briefly enlivening the backdrop of beat-up olive-green military vehicles, brown desert, and dusty shop fronts.

"Koizumi's whole plan is to end the power of vested interests and old-fashioned customs, including the privileged circle of journalists," Mr. Toshikawa said.

To say those things in many parts of the country is to invite disbelief; but I have an old-fashioned affection for the institutions and customs of liberal democracy that have sustained Britain to date.

That old-fashioned concept — it's an old-fashioned word.

I'm an old-fashioned girl.

Dirk Kuyt is an old-fashioned footballer.

"I'm an old-fashioned English lit.

Call it an old-fashioned romance.