How To Use fogy In A Sentence
- We are thought of, and not infrequently referred to by our contemporaries, as old-fogyish, and out of date. The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921
- David might some day come to know that there was a fogyish, bachelor doctor who was almost a father in the same sort of way -- almost, but not quite, for the child had been left not to him, but to her. A Melody in Silver
- No philosopher would jettison Plato just because it's old fashioned, nor would anyone mock the old fogy Whitman.
- Most of the other critics seemed to get the movie better than old fogy Roger Ebert did. Opening Today: Kick-Ass Morally Reprehensible?
- And this frank admission ought to show that I am not your mere twaddling laudator temporis acti — your old fogy who can see no good except in his own time. Roundabout Papers
- Where did this old fogy come from, they just forgot all about this war. Rumsfeld says Obama made 'bald misstatement'
- This is Fogy, the milliner, sir, "said he to Furlong, whose surprise was further increased, when, in the person of the man called the milliner, he beheld a tinker. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
- Then again, at least Milner is trying to be of use; he's an old-fashioned kind of fogy that way. The Kids Are All Right
- ‘The soccer was never sold out when I was a kid,’ I said, lunging irrevocably into the world of fogydom the instant the words left my lips.
- The hoarse grating sound of the saw, the whistling of the plane, and the stroke of the mallet denoted the presence of the carpenter; and the sharper clink of a hammer told of old Fogy, the family "milliner," being at work; but it was not on millinery Fogy was now employed, though neither was it legitimate tinker's work. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
