VINTAGE in a Sentence

Learn VINTAGE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

11 example sentences for VINTAGE, such as:

1. She loaded up his collection of vintage wines into crates.
2. This wine is from one of the two best vintages of the decade in this region.
3. We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil.
4. We travelled at the time of the vintage and heard the song of the labourers as we glided down the stream.
5. Its appearance and the dust upon the bottle showed that it was no common vintage which the murderers had enjoyed.

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 Meanings and Examples of VINTAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vintage
 n.  a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
 n.  the oldness of wines
Classic Sentence:
1  It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  We travelled at the time of the vintage and heard the song of the labourers as we glided down the stream.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
3  Then Sherlock Holmes cocked his eye at me, leaning back on the cushions with a pleased and yet critical face, like a connoisseur who has just taken his first sip of a comet vintage.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
4  Its appearance and the dust upon the bottle showed that it was no common vintage which the murderers had enjoyed.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
5  While Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that adorned the wall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
6  The porter opens; I have my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
7  We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
8  He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
Example Sentence:
1  She loaded up his collection of vintage wines into crates.
2  In one of more recent vintage, a Philip Morris researcher compares nicotine to cocaine in terms of its addictive properties.
3  This wine is from one of the two best vintages of the decade in this region.