How to Use traditional in a Sentence

traditional

adjective
  • Popovich’s path to the NBA, and then to the role as coach of the Spurs, wasn't exactly traditional.
    Tim Reynolds, ajc, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Winslet paired the look with traditional black dress pants and pumps.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The condiment Tajín rims the glass in place of more traditional salt.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • One of the more traditional (and our favorite) ways to cook okra is to slice it and fry it in cornmeal.
    Virginia Willis, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • That award went to Crispell, who also took traditional male artist of the year.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 21 July 2024
  • This means that the traditional wipe-off or spin-and-clean style devices mostly just spread the dirt around in the grooves.
    Parker Hall, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2025
  • All that helps fill up the buckets the NFL prizes the most – reach on traditional and social media.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
  • My milk bread isn’t traditional by any means, but the end result gets you close.
    New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Pops Staples didn’t mind; the tune is from a traditional gospel song.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • In a more traditional cop show kind of way, he'd either be brought down or go out in a blaze of glory.
    Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Thomas played 4 minutes in the second half, but the change left only one traditional big on the floor for much of the last 20 minutes.
    Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Get ready to dance a jig to live Irish music and enjoy traditional Irish fare.
    Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • And the range is wide: igloo, electric, raft, infrared, wood-burning, and traditional smoke saunas, to name a few.
    Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Basic blue for the road, while at home the traditional Sox colors.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • And this is where Moscow inserts itself on the side of the defender of the faithful and the traditional.
    CBS News, 6 July 2022
  • The way episodes 1 through 8 went, a traditional big villain fight finale seemed out of the question.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Oct. 2022
  • For those who are after the look and feel of a more traditional headphone, there are the Apple AirPods Max.
    Jessica Leigh Mattern, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Starting on March 4, the market will return to its traditional time of 7 a.m. to noon.
    Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 28 Jan. 2023
  • As one of my sources called it, the Rose Garden Strategy, a very traditional role.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • That means neither of these anonymous founding teams raised money in the traditional way to get their projects off the ground.
    Jessica Klein, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The units would be a mix of both townhomes and more traditional apartment buildings.
    Bob Dohr, Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The rise of neobanks has forced traditional banks to innovate.
    Andrew Jamison, Fortune, 5 July 2022
  • Since her time studying at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, her work essentially merged traditional craft and fine art.
    Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The old Chinatown, west of the Strip, looks more traditional, with neon lights and an ornate entry arch.
    Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Cap: The cap design of this wig follows a more traditional style, featuring a full frontal lace with the middle to the back of the wig weft onto a cap.
    Noel Cymone Walker, StyleCaster, 2 May 2025
  • As is traditional with dragons, this one gobbled up anyone who tried to cross the marsh.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
  • This is traditional food, not unlike the taquitos La Pietra ate with his grandmother, though there are a few twists.
    oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The pink gold version of the Saxonia Thin is more traditional, with a plain white dial.
    Carol Besler, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Some of Washington’s partners may wait for a while, hoping that their American friends will come to their senses and try to reestablish something akin to the traditional U.S. leadership role.
    Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • Wells Fargo said buy Visa and Mastercard on their recent weakness tied to concerns that stablecoins could threaten the traditional payments ecosystem.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 June 2025

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