Prefix with active or grade

Usage examples of retro.

Her handful of semiclose friends thought Joyce was being trendily retro.

The appendix was retro cecal and was tough to deliver out of the wound.

Royal Police had rounded up all the Seventh of Spring retros they knew of in Malfom Prefecture, and some in Landfall Prefecture.

The big ship had slowed almost to a stop well before it was visible to the naked eye and it now nosed slowly toward the RAMco station with the exhaust from its retros streaming behind it.

Remember when I was at Gold-Tone Studios and they needed those vintage archtops for that retro Elvis video?

Poi per un po' parlò di una lite per questioni di droga, quando gli agenti della squadra antinarcotici avevano preso a calci entrambe le porte, quella principale e quella sul retro, dell'appartamento sopra a lei.

They sidled up to the bar and soon learned that the fare, besides clam chowder, was a retro combination of burgers, syllabub, and mead.

At Luna it would be much the way barges are now landed off Bombay, solid-charge retrorockets programmed by ground control—except that it would be much cheaper, two and a half kilometer-seconds change of motion versus eleven-plus, a squared factor of about twenty—but actually even more favorable, as retros are parasitic weight and the payload improves accordingly.

At Luna it would be much the way barges are now landed off Bombay, solid-charge retrorockets programmed by ground control--except that it would be much cheaper, two and a half kilometer-seconds change of motion versus eleven-plus, a squared factor of about twenty--but actually even more favorable, as retros are parasitic weight and the payload improves accordingly.

Salutes hadn't been in style for two centuries now, but Tang was retro enough to harken back to those days of extreme discipline.

There's a retro hat shop in Berwick Street Market that might just have one.

They're big wraparounds, retro shades he associates with lava lamps and outlaw biker movies starring Peter Fonda.

White hair doesn't elicit sneers from the wait staff, martinis aren't the retro craze of the minute, piano bars endure.

His safety harness held, though, and within an eyeblink he heard the howling screech of the tiny retro rocket motors.

You know, this new MTV movement with these new bands that are trying to start a late sixties, early seventies retro thing again?