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How to use fogey in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word fogey? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
This Charles question is not really about him being a fogey with hopelessly reactionary ideas.
I'm such an old fogey that I can't remember ever having to crack out the crayons, Play Doh, and paints for my homework in high school.
As a student he was something of a young fogey, snobbish, solitary and obsessed with cleanliness.
He grew famous, his prices soared and by the 1960s, to young pop artists, he was an old fogey.
Although the prince was a mere 13 years older than she, Diana saw him as an old fogey, approaching middle age.
I realised I was perhaps a bit more of a young fogey than I had imagined.
Here is a stickler from an earlier age … here is pettifogging fogey made flesh.
But for a new wave of teenage Aberdeen supporters, the old fogey between the sticks must be just another member of a depressingly unsuccessful side.
Both party leaders regard Mr Havel as a moralising and interfering old fogey.
The players are even putting Sinatra songs on in the dressing room, which shows what an old fogey I am.
At the ripe age of 28, Jon Zimmer is sort of an old fogey.
Almost certainly, the record will receive a bunch of brief reviews, some marvelling at Robinson's longevity, others dismissing him as a lickerish old fogey.
The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.
I want there to come a time when they tell me I'm an old fogey and need to step down.
You can call me an old fogey but even going back to my day it's insane to think about playing four weeks in a row as Wexford have had to do.
Do you have to be an old fogey to appreciate that Sean and Paddy operated in an era when men were men?
I know I'm at risk of sounding like an old fogey but Celebrity Big Brother, for a start, is well past its sell-by date.
Not only was I not the star, I was just an old fogey who was allowed to play, out of the kindness of their hearts.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is at best the act of a fogey and always an easy thing to do, as there are so few people who can contradict one.
But when my slightly contemptuous companion spoke I had no answer, felt out of date and dull, a fogey and an idle man.
One old German fogey wanted to have all the letters on the German typewriters changed to German script.
Her people are hastening to bring from hidden coves things once discarded as fogey.
She said to herself that she was rapidly developing into a fogey, and must rigorously combat the grievous tendency.
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