Sentence examples for old advertisements from inspiring English sources

"Like the old advertisements for Virginia Slims cigarettes — 'You've come a long way, Baby!' — advertising and media images today often link heavier drinking with girl power," she says.

What is it about old advertisements, sometimes called "ghost signs," that so intrigues us?

Alas, all the text has been destroyed; only old advertisements remain.

Other boxes featured shoes (and links for buying them online), as well as old advertisements for Keds.

Conservative super PACs dusted off old advertisements that had not been shown in weeks and shipped them to local television stations from Scranton to Pittsburgh.

Kramer was crestfallen; then he found one of Richtig's old advertisements, in which the smith acknowledged using wider edges for demonstrations.

To those fighting it, the war in Iraq is not a glorious cause or, as the old advertisement put it, an adventure.

He explained that it was an old advertisement, one he wrote a previous time he was looking for a roommate and then improperly reviewed before reposting it, and that he planned to take the smoking language out.

Mr. Romney reprised an old advertisement asserting that his background as governor of Massachusetts and chief executive of the 2002 Winter Olympics gave him the experience to be president.

Every day on my way to my office at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street, I look up and see an old advertisement for cigarettes painted on the side of a building, showing a man lighting up.

Pictured: A photo of an old advertisement featuring Edith Head.