old-time
adjective
1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of an earlier period
old-time songs
2
: of long standing
old-time residents
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Examples of old-time in a Sentence
an old-time song that took the long-married couple back to when they were first dating
Recent Examples on the Web
Meant to evoke the feeling of an old-time movie theater, the space is enveloped in oxblood and warmed with regal doses of amber, crimson, and mauve via copious pillows covered in Indian textiles and a Bang & Olufson wall speaker covered in Kvadrat fabric.
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Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 27 Sep. 2024
This is a vast overturning of the old-time natural language processing (NLP) that used to be stilted and awkward to use, which has been shifted into a new version of NLP fluency of an at times startling or amazing caliber.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Dupee said the theater is a recreation of an old-time movie theater that utilizes a marquee from New Hampshire.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 9 Aug. 2024
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson got theirs on the 1992 Dream Team; old-time legends like Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, and the late Jerry West stood atop the podium.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 24 July 2024
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Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 27 Sep. 2024
This is a vast overturning of the old-time natural language processing (NLP) that used to be stilted and awkward to use, which has been shifted into a new version of NLP fluency of an at times startling or amazing caliber.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Dupee said the theater is a recreation of an old-time movie theater that utilizes a marquee from New Hampshire.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 9 Aug. 2024
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson got theirs on the 1992 Dream Team; old-time legends like Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, and the late Jerry West stood atop the podium.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 24 July 2024
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“Old-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old-time. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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