Sentence examples for retro from inspiring English sources
The word "retro" is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word "retro" to describe something that is in the style of an earlier time. For example, "I love the retro vibe of this room."
adjective
Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were.
DH Society's increasing obsession with retro evidences a popular culture that has more or less run out of ideas; well, that and the aversion of those doing its buying and selling to putting in any kind of effort.
The highlight: There's something infinitely appealing about Parker's music, which manages the trick of transplanting the spirit of 69 to 2015 without seeming simply retro.
I love the retro radio in this pic by the way.
He urged the party to reject the temptation of "apeing retro socialism" in a bid to win more former Labour voters in the north of England.
Mixing classic modern furniture with retro design, the apartment has two double bedrooms, one with a wall covered in Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Can" prints, and a spacious lounge with more pop art paintings and a big sink-into sofa.
Showing on a loop on the screens outside Palazzo Grazioli was a compilation of clips that had a strangely retro feel to it.
I loved the branches of retro-styled groceries Bi-Rite Market (in The Mission and Western Addition), with their lustworthy displays of local produce.
As I am a person who regularly pulverises my own sofa – shouting, "Why don't you get some more women on?", while throwing things at it – I was concerned I would end up staging a retro-feminist protest along the lines of "Why not Everywoman?" But there was no need to worry.
Already in Tralee, a large wood-fuelled boiler plant provides piped heating to scores of new houses and renewed properties – older houses that are "retro-fitted" with external insulation panels – a large school, a community centre and a government building.
It includes exponents of urban hip-hop, melodic rock, retro-country, guitar band anthems and even the power ballad.
Admittedly, the roller disco's heyday fizzled out somewhere around the end of the 70s, but there are still plenty of retro-themed discos for you to wheel yourself into fitness, such as the fortnightly Birmingham Roller Disco at the Custard Factory (£5).
