Sentence examples for the fad of from inspiring English sources

Subtitled Adventures in Going Nowhere, Iyer's book is a comment on urban living and resistance to the fad of incessant travelling.

A veteran diplomat who came to Baghdad more than a year ago and quickly patented the fad of wearing business suits and combat boots, he has gone from signing orders and handing out decrees to dispensing advice and saying goodbyes.

The velocipede, an early bicycle with a large front wheel, was the fad of 1886, and in the 1890's biking was so popular that 53 bicycle clubs sprouted.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, November 7 , 1931 P. 11The English have taken up the fad of wearing a replica of one's home or favorite building as a clip brooch.

This shift was met by immediate resistance; what was seen as the "fad" of corsetlessness was identified with radical feminist and utopian movements and was also seen as threateningly foreign, possibly even Bolshevik.

Maybe I've been reading too many stories about the fad of teenage vampire chick lit, worlds filled with parasitic aliens and demi-human creatures, but there's something eerie going on in this race.

Talk of social evolution mirrors the fads of the time.

Another Phillips-penned song, "Holy Man", was an odd choice as it was mocking the fads of the day.

Stylists, photographers and designers who have worked with Bündchen speak of her "transcending" the fads of the fashion world.

He asserted that uneducated rustics spoke well because they were uncorrupted by the fads of urban trendies.

I'll admit it: I'm sometimes smugly entertained by the older generation's reaction to the fads of the Web.