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How to use vintage in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Vintage means the yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season. Example: “They went to the car show to see some vintage iron.”

Examples of vintage by meaning

nounWine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.

  • I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes

More sentences with vintage

  • They went to the car show to see some vintage iron.From the entry car show
  • He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.From the entry interest
  • We carry both vintage and nonvintage albums.From the entry nonvintage
  • The unscrupulous landlord rebottled cheap sparkling wines as vintage champagne.From the entry rebottle
  • The bus museum's next running day is August 12. Come along and enjoy a ride on one of our vintage buses!From the entry running day
  • I thrifted these vintage coffee mugs.From the entry thrift
  • We can use very vibrant colors, and vintage and muted colors.2023 February 12, Sepideh Yazdi, “How can I design in the Neo Brutalism style?”, in Medium. From the entry neubrutalism
  • Within the realm of vintage watch restoration there are few sub-specialties as controversial as dial lume.2020, Colin A. White, The Vintage Rolex Field Manual Chevalier Digital Edition, page 46. From the entry lume
  • “Vintage watch collecting is growing in scale and value in a way we have never seen before.2016 January 19, Jane A. Peterson, “At Watch Auctions, Vintage and Prime to Be Most Prized Qualities”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Sep…. From the entry rule the day
  • A vintage car is exotic and beautiful, and it requires more maintenance.2011, Lorraine Maita, Vibrance for Life, →ISBN. From the entry vintage car
  • Potts—a petite brunette in torn boyfriend jeans, vintage peep-toe wedges, and a low-cut emerald sweater—smile-nodded at Claire.2010, Lisi Harrison, These Boots Are Made for Stalking, Poppy, →ISBN. From the entry boyfriend jeans
  • Packed full of vintage and brand name clothing at a savvy price, it's a thriftster's haven.2010, Tabitha Akins, "Brooklyn", in "Outside Of Your Borough: Thrift Stores", W27 (State University of New York), Volume 42, Issue 79…. From the entry thriftster
  • Vintage Wine looked even redder next to the orange and yellow daisylike flowers of Helenium Moerheim Beauty.2009 August 13, Anne Raver, “A Tapestry of Color, Unfolding All Year”, in New York Times. From the entry daisylike
  • "Pebble" as this event is commonly called, is the grand daddy of the vintage car collector world.2008, Stefan R. Gesterkamp, How to Paint Your Show Car, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry vintage car
  • So I prefer either a real vintage pickup or one that’s just a little souped-up.2008 September 30, Alan di Perna, “Paul Stanley: Some Kind of Minister”, in www.guitarworld.com, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2021. From the entry superunbelievable
  • But it’s the vintage years, the old time rock and roll, that really spins my wheels.2007, Deborah Godin, “Introduction”, in Papa Do Run: A Baby Boomer Looks (and Laughs) at Vintage Rock & Roll, 1st edition, United States…. From the entry spin someone's wheels
  • We feel bubblier than any vintage champagne, floatier than a bunch of balloons.2003, Libby Willis, “Fun and Games”, in Happiness: The Feel-good Factor, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry floaty
  • The rest of the Tates are wine people, every one with a favorite vintage.2002, Glen Cook, Angry Lead Skies: A Garrett, P.I., Novel. From the entry spoiled grape juice
  • Site includes weekly specials, newest items, and information on collecting vintage items and offers layaway.1998, Marcia Layton, New Rider's Official World Wide Web Yellow Pages, →ISBN, page 370. From the entry weddinggoer
  • For a terrific overview of rare vintage militarywear, dip into Kaufman’s Army & Navy.1998, New York, page 62. From the entry militarywear
  • Wheels are vintage Porsche chromies with chrome VW caps and new tires (less than 2k miles).1992 April 8, James Malloy, “67 Bug for sale”, in rec.autos.vw (Usenet). From the entry chromie
  • Prestige or luxury cuvées are wines designed for those who prefer greater luxuries than simple vintage wines.1987, John J. Baxevanis, The Wines of Champagne, Burgundy, Eastern and Southern France. From the entry cuvée
  • The name will suggest, to those who have some winelore, no less a vintage than Château Yquem.1917, George Saintsbury, A History of the French Novel: From the Beginning to the Close of the 19th Century (Complete), Library of…. From the entry winelore
  • He knew what days all of the girls would be in the vintage store together to take inventory.2025, Trudy Jean Evans, The HOA Chronicles: A Cautionary Tale of Mismanagement, Mishaps, and Mayhem, Wheatmark, Inc.. From the entry Charlie's Angels
  • Trust us when we tell you that your nearest charity shop or vintage store is packed full of “grandpacore” gems.2024 January 16, Joy Montgomery, “Why Second-Hand Is The Only Way To Wear 2024’s “Grandpacore” Trend”, in Vogue, archived from the…. From the entry grandpacore
  • In other words, a vintage aficionado does not adhere to the same temporal ideology as, for instance, a retrograde nationalist.2024, Massimo Leone, “The Past of the Future and the Future of the Past”, in Semiotic Ideologies: Patterns of Meaning-Making in Language…. From the entry retrotopia
  • He was in a gravely weakened condition but was able to make the ’45, a great vintage in France.2022 October 6, Eric Asimov, “Echoes of a World War in Wines From the Early 1940s”, in The New York Times. From the entry P.O.W.
  • At one point, it breaks down to little more than a stabbing, echoing organ with a vintage reggae flavour.2020 April 23, Alexis Petridis, “The Rolling Stones: Living in a Ghost Town review – their best new song in years”, in The Guardian. From the entry dub
  • We drove there in the one taxi in town, a large Brougham automobile of ancient vintage, whimsically called a quickshaw.2014, Leila Hadley, Give Me the World. From the entry quickshaw
  • And it was Lampard who stole the show with a vintage performance to silence some of his recent critics.2011 October 2, Jonathan Jurejko, “Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport. From the entry steal the show
  • In his bower, Coverdale onanistically counts “the innumerable clusters of my vine,” and forereckons “the abundance of my vintage.”2005, D. Greven, Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature. From the entry forereckon
  • Vintage ephemera is similar to modern ephemera in that it consists of paper items that were designed to be short-lived.2004, Erikia Ghumm, Tags Reinvented, Memory Makers, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry ephemera
  • The Coldplayers felt confident their sophomore effort would please fans — until they got an earful of vintage George Harrison.2003 February 4, Edna Gundersen, “Coldplay follows in path of performers with passion”, in Tulsa World, page D 4. From the entry Coldplayer
  • A peely-paint old porch chair and a vintage clock are other relics that seem to belie the advance of time.1999, Sally Clark, House Beautiful: Bathrooms, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Books, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry peely
  • No doubt, the United Kingdom also had their sycophants—toadys, bachhas, jholichuks and hukkabardars—but chamchas of the modern vintage they had none.1998 January 17, “In Praise of Chamchagiri”, in P.S. Sharma Times of India. From the entry chamcha
  • I have three concealed floorfuls of similar vintage.1996, Alan Coren, A Bit on the Side, page 106. From the entry floorful
  • For a working class setting, everything is too precious, from Lilli's baby blue vintage auto to Bet's sunwashed ice cream truck.1988 April 16, Elizabeth Pincus, “Taming Upstart Women”, in Gay Community News, page 7. From the entry sunwashed
  • Beyond all doubt it promised to be of vintage quality.1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren. From the entry pep
  • Luke's summer, the very vintage of the year's juices.1934, Sir William Beech Thomas, The Yeoman's England. From the entry St. Luke's summer

Meaning of vintage

  1. noun The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
  2. noun Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
  3. noun The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.

Full definition of vintage

Questions about vintage in a sentence

How do you use vintage in a sentence?
Vintage is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “They went to the car show to see some vintage iron.”
What is a short sentence with vintage?
“I thrifted these vintage coffee mugs.”
What does vintage mean?
Vintage means the yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.

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