How to Use newfangled in a Sentence

newfangled

adjective
Definition of newfanglednext
Synonyms for newfanglednext
  • His grandson owns all of the latest newfangled electronics.
  • The menu isn’t part of some newfangled scheme to shed pounds.
    — Mary Holland, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2023
  • With a blend of newfangled queens comes the magic of the series.
    — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 23 June 2023
  • His death is a blow to the newfangled sport, which is attempting to jump to the worldwide stage.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Most of these newfangled devices pay for themselves in less than a year.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2023
  • A newer route starts in the same place but employs newfangled switchbacks that zigzag up through the trees and spit you out at treeline.
    — Alli Harvey, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Aug. 2017
  • In other words, serving the customer's needs—a concept that, come to think of it, doesn't sound too newfangled at all.
    — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The work on the facade relied on newfangled lasers and old-fashioned elbow grease.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 11 May 2022
  • The other two teams have now switched to more newfangled Nike templates, leaving the Packers as the last remaining team to stick with the old Reebok style.
    — Paul Lukas, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • There’s this newfangled thing that Ebenezer Scrooge would have loved — the internet.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Stuck dangling from the top is a remnant of newfangled instant-camera film.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • And by the way, this isn’t a newfangled vision for Tomorrowland.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Hotel gyms can seem like such a treat — Newfangled equipment!
    — Maria Teresa Hart, USA TODAY, 10 May 2017
  • The consensus among the group was that the newfangled contraption would never amount to anything.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 June 2022
  • Is there room on the Houston burrito landscape for a newfangled roll-up?
    — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 18 May 2018
  • The newfangled roller coasters, dark (indoor) rides and other attractions featured on the trade show floor may show up on park midways down the road.
    — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Fast-forward to this year and Popowich, 59, has a patent pending for her newfangled jewelry design.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • In the 1920s, as those newfangled private motor cars gummed up traffic, street-side parking downtown was banned.
    — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • There are old-school paper straws and newfangled compostable plastic straws.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
  • Exit velocity, the speed of the ball after it's hit, is a newfangled stat MLB.com began tracking in 2015.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • Isaac Newton’s newfangled ideas about how objects moved, and the physics of electricity.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Or, more importantly, will he/she/it be a familiar voice of verse or some newfangled puzzler of prose?
    — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Thankfully, Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort doesn’t dabble in newfangled gimmicks like trap and drill.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But the newfangled hardware never crept down to mainstream laptops.
    — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 11 May 2021
  • Still, newfangled benefits may not be the ticket to get young, creative professionals in the door.
    — Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 27 Apr. 2018
  • In addition, Ted, who rhapsodized about the effectiveness of the newfangled slider, never had to deal with the evil splitter.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Like any newfangled thing, movies were at first regarded as a novelty.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2023
  • There’s plenty of that newfangled Italian fare in this country, anyway.
    — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 11 May 2017
  • Kankakee is where Sherb Noble, Rintelman’s wife’s grandfather, agreed to test a newfangled form of ice cream: soft serve.
    — Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2019
  • In 1941, surgeons convinced the Kennedy patriarch, Joseph Kennedy, of the need for a newfangled medical procedure: a lobotomy.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024

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