Sentence examples for popular fad from inspiring English sources

That was when orange and neon yellow golf balls were a popular fad in the golf ball marketplace and Ping went one step further and made balls of various combinations: half orange and half neon yellow, half white and have neon yellow, half white and half pink, half blue and half gold.

Mr. Hine also observes that as more and more people postponed marriage, and an increasing number of Americans began living alone, the pet rock became a popular fad, satirizing while pointing up "a widespread reluctance to take any responsibility or to make any commitments".

Streaking was a popular fad at the time.

He became a sought-after master of ceremonies for dance marathons (known as "walkathons" at the time), a popular fad in the 1930s.

The character also had a cultural impact outside of Star Trek fandom; a clip from The Wrath of Khan featuring Kirk screaming "Khaaan!" was one popular culture appropriation that became a "popular fad" driving the success of the website YTMND.

And yet, all too often universities are happy to pile on vocational-sounding courses while pandering to popular fads.

It's hard enough to tell tell fact from fiction in the nutrition world, where popular fads often speak louder than science.

I do not believe that the field of psychiatry, or child and adolescent psychiatry, has been terribly responsive to popular fads.

What was plainly evident to everyone else was that the only constant in the music business was inconstancy, the fickle nature of popular fads.

In the nineteen-twenties, when other American writers were excited by Freud, Joyce, and Picasso, or by jazz, flappers, and booze, Sinclair was devoted to popular fads like dieting and homeopathy.

"Penney's management and advisors are resorting to tactical Hail Mary's, pandering to the popular fads and whims, hoping they'll attract brief attention," emailed marketing strategist Rob Frankel of the Frankel and Anderson agency.