Sentence examples for retro kind from inspiring English sources

We're beginning to sound desperate, in a vexing, retro kind of way.

One effect of all this Google searching at social events is the resurgence of a retro kind of party, trivia night.

Clarke's is a retro kind of auction house, low key and quirky and about as different from Sotheby's as it is possible to be.

Instead, the hotel equips each room's "pantry" with 375-milliliter vessels of liquor, including international staples like Grey Goose vodka as well as local brands like Tuthilltown's Hudson Whiskey; bottles of Fever Tree tonic water and ginger ale; and a replica of a vintage cocktail shaker — the kitschy, retro kind with drink formulas are printed on the side.

I like the blues, and it looked to be a cool, retro kind of place.

It's a very retro kind of television special, singing old rock 'n' roll songs, and now it was time to take that into a modern world.

Is that black cat poster retro, or kind of brilliantly Cheezburgery?

Sounds like a decidedly retro-leaning kind of gal.

"I've been called alternative, retro, all kinds of things like that," said the singer, guitarist and producer Raphael Saadiq, formerly of the band Toni Toni Tone and now of a new band, Lucy Pearl, whose first album comes out in May.

("I used to dress more inventively, until a girlfriend said, 'Moss, you project unusual enough.' ") Perhaps you've come across his line of thick-rimmed eyeglasses, which he accurately pegs as "the retro-modern kind of thing Marcello Mastroianni would wear while tooling around Rome on his Vespa" (mosslipow.com; $350).

The company is just starting to be cool again, and not even in a retro-vintage kind of way.