Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use nostalgic in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Nostalgic means of, having, or relating to nostalgia. Example: “A nostalgic journey by steam makes even a business trip an excursion.”

Examples of nostalgic by meaning

adjectiveOf, having, or relating to nostalgia.

  • They aroused a strange, nostalgic ache of desire, something almost demoniacal, never to be fulfilled.1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for...
  • Misery and a nameless nostalgic distress possessed him.1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 1, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus
  • An opening sequence, featuring a de-aged Ford playing a younger Indy, is a bold and nostalgic gambit, offering a glimpse of what you've missed.2023 June 29, City AM, London, page 18, column 2

nounA person who displays nostalgia for something.

  • But of course every well-brought-up person to-day knows that the Victorians were sentimentalists, nostalgics, escapists, self-deceivers.1933 January, Gilbert Armitage, “Were these Victorians?”, in The Bookman, volume LXXXIII, number 496
  • In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists.1957 August 19, Time, page 17
  • One for the football nostalgics.2009 February 28, Steven Morris, “Brought to books: bibliophiles and traders enjoy giveaway bonanza”, in The Guardian

More sentences with nostalgic

  • A nostalgic journey by steam makes even a business trip an excursion.From the entry by steam
  • The nostalgic look mixed with its soft design have the girlies in a chokehold!2024 October 8, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “65+ Fall Prime Day Fashion Deals Your Closet Is Begging You to Shop”, in Cosmopolitan…. From the entry chokehold
  • Liminal spaces can be both comforting and discomforting, nostalgic and unsettling, intimate and unnatural.2022 November 1, Jake Pitre, “The Eerie Comfort of Liminal Spaces”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry liminal space
  • "If it's only nostalgic, you just feel romantic about it and you're done with that."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
  • Thanks to social media getting all nostalgic on Throwback Thursdays, everyone knows you once sported a mullet.2015, Scott Kleinberg, So Social, →ISBN. From the entry Throwback Thursday
  • Sally unlocked her tiny cubicle and found herself feeling quite nostalgic.2014, Lynda Bellingham, chapter 2, in The Boy I Love, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry nudge nudge wink wink
  • There are some lovely nostalgic moments too, about affairs before mobile phones.2012 July 19, Elisabeth Mahoney, “A week in radio: Harold Pinter's Betrayal”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian…. From the entry pip-pip-pip
  • Similar to these were songs with nostalgic texts about longing for the Old Country.2001, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 815. From the entry old country
  • He said that objects first become cherishable, after which they get nostalgic value.1997, Ed van Hinte, Eternally yours: visions on product endurance. From the entry cherishable
  • Nostalgic landlubbers, and sealubbers, enamored of the bygone days of sail, find her quite irresistible.1960 May 8, David MacNeil Doren, “Hosteler’s Anchorage in Stockholm”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry sealubber
  • Even the remaining supporters of a two-state solution can offer only a shrunken, nostalgic version of Zionist nationalism.2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019, archived from the original on…. From the entry zionist
  • The nostalgic appeal and cosy image of knitting also accounts for the yarn bomber's ability to evade the authorities.2010 October 10, Maddy Costa, “The graffiti knitting epidemic”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media…. From the entry yarn bomber
  • I breathed in a refreshing green note of verbena, a smell that was so quintessentially English that I felt suddenly nostalgic.2007, Celia Lyttelton, The Scent Trail: An Olfactory Odyssey, London […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry concrete
  • This character has his own way of viewing all that is wrong, challenging nostalgic rhetoric and the most anachronistic Kiplingism.2007, Laura E. Ruberto, Kristi M. Wilson, Italian neorealism and global cinema. From the entry Kiplingism
  • It's a nostalgic grab for old certainties.2005 September 11, Madeleine Bunting, “The muscular liberals are marching into a dead end”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry dead end
  • Today Coke exists as nostalgic brand, harking back to the day when the drink enjoyed its peak iconic stature.2004, D. B. Holt, How Brands Become Icons, Harvard Business Press, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry Americana
  • Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74. From the entry fairy floss
  • To nostalgic eyes they became absolutely and almost mercifully unrecognisable.1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57. From the entry denigration
  • That nostalgic luxury is particularly obvious in the former station buffet, which still functioned as a restaurant when I was last there several years ago.2025 October 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Life's little luxuries”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 84. From the entry echoey
  • A Mont Blanc is a celebration of decadent chestnut cream, a particularly beloved and nostalgic French flavor, and is eaten primarily around Christmas.2024 February 13, Kimberly Zerkel, The French Bakery Cookbook: Over 85 Authentic Recipes That Bring the Boulangerie Into Your Home, →ISBN…. From the entry mont blanc
  • Meanwhile, BarbieCore taps into a playful, nostalgic love for all things pink and plastic, blending fashion with a sense of empowerment and self-expression.2024 September 27, Nicole Chan, “Digital subcultures: Why Gen Z finds meaning in the margins”, in The Straits Times, Singapore. From the entry Barbiecore
  • The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy’s mob-moll paramour.2014 July 31, Frank Rich, “A Distant Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry moll
  • Not that he feels nostalgic for his mortal origins; after all, he was desperately unhappy, at least immediately prior to his vampirehood.2008, Charles Pinches, Jay B. McDaniel, Good News for Animals?: Christian Approaches to Animal Well-Being, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry vampirehood
  • The readers probably expecting me to go on about how Johnny was real nostalgic about some kind of material security. . . .1984, David Homel (translator), Jacques Renaud (author), Broke City (original French edition, Le cassé, 1964), p. 37 (Google preview). From the entry wrong number
  • Whoever wants to keep the traditional subject of Western culture’s emancipatory stories (humanity inhabiting the Earth) is doomed to tell children’s fairy tales in a nostalgic retro style.2023, Bartosz Kuźniarz, “Lyotard and the Inhuman Mode of Production”, in Kiff Bamford, Margret Grebowicz, editors, Lyotard and Critical…. From the entry retrotopia
  • The show also features DJs Nocturna, Du Nord and Nightfox playing nostalgic goth, industrial, EBM and dark alternative music, plus special performances by members of Honolulu’s dark alternative scene.2018 September 7, “Music & Nightlife”, in Elizabeth Kieszkowski, editor, TGIF (Honolulu Star-Advertiser), Honolulu, Haw., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry dark alternative
  • In this sense, a new loyalist aesthetic can also be perceived in simplistic works such as anticommunist literature and melancholic works such as nostalgic fiction and prose.2013, Shu-mei Shih, Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry loyalist
  • "When we started Mike's, we wanted to sell the things that we loved, which happened to be things with a childlike or nostalgic theme through them," she says.2008 April 20, Rachelle Unreich, “The play’s the thing”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., archived from the original on 02 Nov 2018. From the entry amigurumi
  • Retro-assimilation has strong appeal in today's climate of social turmoil, transformation and global threats: we are irresistibly drawn to its retroscapes, its nostalgic memories of safer and simpler times.2008, Anna Haebich, Spinning the dream: assimilation in Australia 1950-1970, page 8. From the entry retroscape
  • Never having been an ardent fan of conventional ‘bodice rippers’ or nostalgic fossilisations of a past we never had, I was surprised by my reaction to the costumes.1997, Stella Bruzzi, “Introduction: Clothing and Cinema”, in Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies, Abingdon…. From the entry bodice ripper
  • A more straightforwardly nostalgic use of the family album is in oral history, which has used them as a device for family reconstitution and opening up memory lanes.1994, Raphael Samuel, “Dreamscapes”, in Theatres of Memory, volumes 1 (Past and Present in Contemporary Culture), London; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry memory lane
  • Zennström chooses to lunch at Roka, a Japanese robatayaki restaurant that promises to “wrap each diner in a cocoon of warmth, welcome and hospitality”, for both nostalgic and pragmatic reasons.2023 September 23, John Thornill, “Let’s break the Silicon Valley monopoly”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial…. From the entry robatayaki
  • Seen from the present day—a time of general disrepair in banking and of a centibillion-dollar crisis in the so-called thrift industry—the turn of the century has a powerful nostalgic appeal.1992, James Grant, “Democratizing Credit”, in Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken…. From the entry centibillion
  • A philosophic study of the development of philosophies should be content to seek out the bases and cogencies of philosophies rather than engage upon a nostalgic search for sympathetic doctrines.1928 Oct, Richard McKeon, “Thomas Aquinas' Doctrine of Knowledge and Its Historical Setting”, in Speculum, volume 3, number 4, page 444. From the entry cogency

Meaning of nostalgic

  1. adjective Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
  2. noun A person who displays nostalgia for something.

Full definition of nostalgic

Questions about nostalgic in a sentence

How do you use nostalgic in a sentence?
Nostalgic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “A nostalgic journey by steam makes even a business trip an excursion.”
What is a short sentence with nostalgic?
“One for the football nostalgics.”
What does nostalgic mean?
Nostalgic means of, having, or relating to nostalgia.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nostalgic (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use nostalgic in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/nostalgic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.