How to Use old-timer in a Sentence
old-timer
noun-
The owner and barista hold court with the two old-timers at the counter.
— Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024 -
With two outs, the Rays put five straight men on base and the old-timers were dancing in the aisles.
— Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023 -
An old-timer from the van, Ray Insalaco, came in to help box up the desks.
— Jay Kirk, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023 -
But the membership began to decline in the 2010s as the old-timers died off.
— Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023 -
Some days Mager will stop to have a Key West old-timer tell a story from his porch.
— Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024 -
But don’t think your archives are only for your old-timers.
— Samantha Reynolds, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023 -
Get these two old-timers their AARP cards and shingles shots already.
— Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023 -
Forst praised Kotsay for his ability to teach the game to a roster that was full of first-timers and old-timers.
— Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024 -
Fortunately, the old-timers’ tales and warnings proved to be a bit overblown.
— Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023 -
This isn’t some old-timer’s tall tale: Lori Ford has been walking two miles down a dirt road, with snow past her knees, just to get to work this month.
— Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023 -
The old-timers in the audience were thrilled to take another drive down Kingsley Street.
— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023 -
Some old-timers would tough it out in tennis shoes to be extra quiet while walking through the woods.
— Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024 -
An old-timer, Grandma, has been a regular for 13 years.
— Juli Berwald, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023 -
In a few years, only old-timers could remember the glory days of Black baseball in Fort Worth.
— Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2024 -
An old-timer had told him that deer sightings bode well and so my father watched and waited, hoping for luck and chance.
— Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023 -
Cities that elect these positions are often old-timers.
— Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024 -
Meanwhile, the two clueless old-timers in her orbit natter on about their man problems.
— Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024 -
But the feverish erosion has startled old-timers and newcomers alike.
— Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2023 -
Then an old-timer hoarse and exigent with years bugled like a braying donkey.
— Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024 -
There is a brief mention of grumbling among old-timers that the neighborhood staple has forsaken its roots.
— Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2024 -
But her sweet spot was coastal people — firefighters and shrimpers, cooks and cops, loggers, politicians and old-timers — and history.
— Mark Woolsey, ajc, 16 June 2023 -
Floyd Brown, a 67-year-old wizened, devout drinker, said old-timers always avoided certain areas for fear of an apelike beast.
— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024 -
The latest installment of the old-timer action series promises to be Sylvester Stallone’s final mission with the world-saving team.
— James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023 -
This was always the best argument against claims from purists and old-timers that the sudden importance of shoe tech was ruining the beauty and simplicity of the sport.
— Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023 -
The free programming drew families with young children, in awe of seeing the life-size version of their toys, and old-timers glad to park on viewing platforms with frozen lemonade in hand.
— Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2023 -
After property developers try to grab a rundown building, young gangsters try to throw people out of the building, drug addicts cause trouble and the old-timer heeds his neighbors’ calls and fights back.
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023 -
Impressive stuff, but the success of these old-timers also threw the continuing drought in new British global superstars into sharp relief.
— Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023 -
Other dedicated old-timers trickle in on e-bikes around noon with coolers full of Presidentes and sandwiches.
— Allie Conti, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023 -
Some designs simply can’t be improved upon: Park most new supercars next to a 58-year-old Lamborghini Miura and chances are the old-timer will command more attention than the upstart.
— Josh Condon, Robb Report, 13 June 2024 -
The Mexican community in the southeast corner of Georgia expanded rapidly, and Ms. Castro, an old-timer, was much sought after.
— Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
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