How to Use unfashionable in a Sentence

unfashionable

adjective
  • The band, which looks like a big and unfashionable watch, beams the signals to a phone or computer.
    Wired, 23 Sep. 2019
  • At worst, Mr. Styles runs the risk of being unfashionable.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • The whole band was dressed in purposefully unfashionable clothing, plucked from the mall or the skate shop.
    Liana Satenstei, Vogue, 29 June 2021
  • Miss Oates is unfashionable also in that there are no curlicues in her technique.
    OregonLive.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Even better when it’s made from the most unfashionable grape of all for rosé: Zinfandel.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2021
  • Socks and ‘stocks…so unfashionable and un-cool, but needed for survival.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 5 July 2022
  • Like the Bentley, the Mercedes sports an unfashionable size for modem tastes.
    Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The stock has almost tripled this year despite some unfashionable traits.
    Carol Ryan, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Rendering Warholism unfashionable, by its own logic, is the same thing as killing it.
    Stephen Metcalf, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Fans of the film may feel a bit short-changed, but the success of this theatrical version is clear from the warmth of the response to the unfashionable yet welcome happy ending.
    David Benedict, Variety, 7 Jan. 2022
  • My favorite stopgap-sport has been the unfashionable ballet of the green baize, also known as snooker.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 1 May 2020
  • People who write paeans to the suburbs, on topics that sit on the cusp between white-collar and blue-collar, are unfashionable these days.
    Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2024
  • And details — plus facts — are unfashionable these days.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
  • The idea of using slang to put people into unfashionable boxes isn't new.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 21 June 2021
  • To a growing number of youths, a wallet stuffed with cash and cards is as unfashionable as the millennial tuck, no-show socks and skinny jeans.
    Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Colin Farrell had goofy, greasy long blonde hair and a thick, unfashionable mustache.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Inwood feels agreeably unfashionable — just a little bit off the wheel.
    Paige Darrah, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Doing it halfway would be more unfashionable than not doing it at all.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • So take your weird runner’s goo out of your unfashionable utility-belt thingy, slurp it down, and journey onward with me.
    Paul McCallion, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The style may be an unfashionable log cabin or split-level rather than a chic, modern farmhouse or cottage.
    New York Times, 2 July 2021
  • However, in the past years, that slogan has become a bit unfashionable.
    Niels Martin Brochner, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • My chunky, plastic-frame glasses are so unfashionable for now.
    Alex Schmidt, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2019
  • This puts Mr Koszek and his home town at the wildly unfashionable end of the environmental debate in Europe.
    The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • Kneeling outside, hands in the dirt, with a tool belt of scissors and shovels is a somewhat unfashionable proposition.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2018
  • But artistry involves choices, and the abiding emphasis here is as unfashionable and open-hearted as the film’s title.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Okasanman seems to live in an unfashionable residential area just outside Tokyo and appears to own a cat.
    Shoko Oda, Bloomberg.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Purge your closet of items belonging to that unfashionable stranger.
    Erin Chack, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The namesake chain has struggled with merchandising issues, from ill-fitting garments to unfashionable looks to the wrong mix of tops and bottoms in its stores.
    Sarah Halzack | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
  • For all its unfashionable New Age elements, readers return time and again to this 160-page treatise.
    Eleanor Cummins, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • At first glance, Lefebvre’s project may seem unfashionable, if not downright hopeless.
    Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 3 July 2024

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