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How to use nostalgia in a sentence

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Nostalgia means a longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness. Example: “Seeing food at camp similar to his mother's cooking sent a wave of nostalgia through him.”

Examples of nostalgia by meaning

nounA longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

  • Seeing food at camp similar to his mother's cooking sent a wave of nostalgia through him.
  • Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter L, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

nounA bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

  • I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London.2013 August 16, Oliver Burkeman, “This is the cutest article”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 20
  • “The nostalgia economy”, as named by Quartz, is the most powerful trend in fashion since florals or trousers and is a reaction to what’s happening in the world.2020 September 9, Priya Elan, “Now-stalgia: why fashion is going back to the future”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  • Though there is nothing generationally unique in the desire to bask in the banalities of your past, these nostalgia communities have flourished on Facebook as its user base has grown ever older in the past decade.2022 November 15, Dan Hancox, “‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today”, in The Guardian

More sentences with nostalgia

  • The song’s lyrics were full of nostalgia.From the entry lyrics
  • Under Xi Jinping’s push for ethnic unity, little remains beyond nostalgia and props for tourists.2026 January 4, Andrew Higgins, “China’s Russian Town Has Log Cabins and Cyrillic Signs, but No Russians”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry Enhe
  • I’m a child of the late 70s, and for me, Cassette Futurism invokes pure nostalgia.2026 April 9, Phil Rowley, “From Cassette Futurism to Friction Maxing: Why we want tactile media experiences again”, in The Media Leader…. From the entry cassette futurism
  • Mushroomcore taps into our collective craving for nature, nostalgia and a bit of eccentric charm.2025 July 14, Unattributed, “Fashionable fungi: How to get the mushroomcore look in your home”, in Good Homes Magazine, archived from the…. From the entry mushroomcore
  • If you’ve ever wanted to hear what nostalgia sounds like when stretched beyond recognition, slushwave is waiting.2025 February 21, James Krustofski, “What is Slushwave?”, in Micro Genre Music, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2026. From the entry slushwave
  • But Mayer may be onto something with Sunshine, and that’s nostalgia.2024 March 27, Connie Loizos, “Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure…. From the entry throwback
  • The joy of that old-school unlock process isn’t some relic amplified by the allure of nostalgia.2023 April 12, Matthew Byrd, “Resident Evil 4’s Microtransactions Ruin One of the Remake’s Best Features”, in Den of Geek, archived from…. From the entry old man yells at clouds
  • We had moved from being the party of ‘white heat’ to the party of sepia-tinged nostalgia.2021 September 23, Peter Walker, quoting Keir Starmer, “Keir Starmer’s words – and what they mean for Labour”, in The Guardian. From the entry white heat
  • But the remastering shows how nostalgia is driving publishers’ decision making.2020 August 1, Imad Khan, “Like Old Hollywood Movies, Video Games Get a Polish for New Audiences”, in The New York Times. From the entry remaster
  • He says the talk about kampong spirit is worse than nostalgia.2018, Simon Vincent, quoting Chua Beng Huat, “The Liberal’s Nightmare: Chua Beng Huat”, in The Naysayer’s Book Club: 26 Singaporeans You…. From the entry kampong spirit
  • A White Christmas is the perfect example of anemoia, nostalgia for a time we never knew.2018, Trevor Harley, The Psychology of Weather, Routledge, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry anemoia
  • Clearly, the kernel of inspiration behind this whole out-of-control rager was nostalgia for less politically correct times.2016 December 7, Peter Debruge, “Film Review: 'Office Christmas Party'”, in Variety (magazine), Los Angeles, C.A.: Penske Media…. From the entry rager
  • Yet, from reboots to genre revivals, nostalgia remains a powerful force in pop culture.2015 November 15, Robert Trussell, “Awash in nostalgia”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 136, number 59, Kansas City, Mo., page 12D. From the entry anemoia
  • The nepenth of nostalgia is replaced by an amphetamine of anticipation.2013, Ogden W[illis] Rogers, “The Tipping Point (or, ‘There She Goes Again …’)”, in Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the…. From the entry nepenthes
  • The feeling of nostalgia for jewelrylike watches extends beyond the practical.2007 October 25, Susan Joy, “Turning Back the Clock”, in New York Times. From the entry jewelrylike
  • The female equivalents were called Merveilleuses and adopted Greek dress and espoused a neo-classical nostalgia.2006, Andrew Hussey, Paris: The Secret History, Penguin, published 2007, page 270. From the entry merveilleuse
  • He was eternally a pilgrim, haunted by a divine nostalgia, and the demon within him was ruthless.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LIV, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 283. From the entry hither and thither
  • Nostalgia, as it turns out, is a disease.2024, Dave Thompson, I Hate Old Music, Too: How Familiarity & Overuse Killed Our Favorite Music. From the entry edish
  • Not everyone succumbed to such nostalgia and despondency.2023, Clive Young, “chapter three: From Union to Devolution”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath…. From the entry despondency
  • As brands rush to serve our newly hyper-nostalgic minds, nostalgia marketing may be entering a new phase: "nowstalgia".[2023 December 18, Leah Carroll, “Nostalgia marketing is powerful. 'Nowstalgia' might be even more compelling.”, in BBC, archived from the…. From the entry nowstalgia
  • Nostalgia is unproductive at best, and harmful at worst.2017, Frank Cifaldi, quoted in Will Freeman, "Save And Continue", Develop, April 2017, page 14. From the entry gatekeepery
  • One certainly finds far more nostalgia for Nehruvian Indo-Asian unity in Delhi than in any of the capitals of Southeast Asia.2015, Jonah Blank, Jennifer D. P. Moroney, Angel Rabasa, Look East, Cross Black Waters: India's Interest in Southeast Asia, →ISBN. From the entry Indo-Asian
  • But The Brooklyn Inn did not choose the beer out of nostalgia for Texas or to cater to a Texpat clientele.2014 May 31, Adam Chandler, “Texas Beer Finds Home in the Heart of New York”, in New York Times. From the entry Texpat
  • The novel also reflects a Tolkienish nostalgia for an earlier England dominated by the rural squirarchy that Eliot absorbed so completely.2011, Leon Surette, Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics, page 301. From the entry Tolkienish
  • I am going to create a trigger to the feelings of nostalgia, that this time at sea will nowise be lost.2006 fall, Nate Haken, “Dolphins Dancing Somewhere off the Coast of Cuba”, in The Massachusetts Review, volume 47, number 3, page 410. From the entry nowise
  • Despite the nostalgia of Chinese culture displayed in the narrative, Mr Butterfly in the ruins of Chinese civilization indeed 'misengenders' China.2006, Wang I-yen, Yiyan Wang, Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World, page 93. From the entry misengender
  • The Salazar home hadn’t changed in 22 years, and I was caught up in an unexpected flow of nostalgia.2001, Margaret Tessler, chapter 30, in Tangled Webs, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry daffodilled
  • The nostalgia epicenter is the baby boomers, who grew up as cars came into their own as a mass-market, affordable entity.2000 May 17, Cliff Rothman, “In Automobilia, a Yearning for the Days of Youth”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry thirty-something
  • Po-Mo art critics express sarcastic nostalgia for his allegorical frescoes.1999, River Styx - Issues 54-57, page 61. From the entry po-mo
  • Nostalgia is almah, the Arab dancing girl.1998, Hélène Cixous, translated by Catherine Gillivray, Firstdays of the Year, Minnesota, page 157. From the entry almah
  • Before his death, Orwell’s acquaintances had often remarked on his ascetic temper, eccentric habits, deep nostalgia, and raw-boned, even cadaverous frame.1989, John Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St. George’ Orwell, page 122. From the entry quixotic
  • Road nostalgia was carried to full flower in the press and television reports on the end of 66.1986, Phil Patton, “Sentimental Journeys: The Myths of Route 66”, in Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry ma-and-pa
  • The visit to Townsville was filled with nostalgia for me.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 361. From the entry zero
  • My poor schmeckle, talk about nostalgia!2015, Stephen Fife, editor, Duo!: The Best Scenes for Mature Actors. From the entry schmeckle
  • Bittersweet nostalgia swept over her as she recalled the night she and Rosa had transformed a desperately lonely troll into a confident kickass female.2014, Camille Anthony, Werewulf Journals, →ISBN. From the entry troll job

Meaning of nostalgia

  1. noun A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
  2. noun A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

Full definition of nostalgia

Questions about nostalgia in a sentence

How do you use nostalgia in a sentence?
Nostalgia is used as a noun. For example: “Seeing food at camp similar to his mother's cooking sent a wave of nostalgia through him.”
What is a short sentence with nostalgia?
“My poor schmeckle, talk about nostalgia!”
What does nostalgia mean?
Nostalgia means a longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

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