fad

01. Tattoos are a popular [fad] among young people nowadays.

02. Cell phones are a popular new [fad] amongst teenagers these days.

03. The government has got to realize that concern for our environment is not a passing [fad] which they can simply ignore.

04. She tried some [fad] diet, but instead of losing weight she just got sick.

05. Music critics once suggested that rap music was just a [fad] which would lose popularity within a couple of years.

06. I'm glad my children aren't interested in the body-piercing [fad] because I think it is a little gross.

07. Bell-bottom pants are a fashion [fad] that seems to reappear every few years.

08. Charlie Chaplin once suggested that movies are a [fad], and that audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

09. She tries every new diet [fad] that appears, but has been unsuccessful in really losing weight and keeping it off.

10. In 1957, someone suggested in a prediction, "Data processing is a [fad] that won't last a year."

11. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows because shaved eyebrows were a [fad] at the time.

12. Piercing nipples with rings is not a new punk [fad]; it was popular among ladies in the late 1800s.

13. In the early 1900s, a man predicted that horses would never be replaced by automobiles, which he said were simply a passing [fad].

14. In March of 1939, the [fad] of goldfish swallowing began at Harvard University.