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
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Students fill the living room with old-time bluegrass, a sound heard less and less in this changing community.
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Ella Adams, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 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, 2 Nov. 2024
Wilson is from Meadowvale Village in Ontario, Canada, and was part of a heritage association which aimed to protect the area's unique old-time aesthetic.
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Lehmkuhl has captured valuable audio from the slamming doors, humming towel machines, and rushing water pipes, noting that the samples collected from these unlikely sources are perfect sound effects for an old-time saloon or ghost town.
—Ashwin Rodrigues, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024
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Ella Adams, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 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, 2 Nov. 2024
Wilson is from Meadowvale Village in Ontario, Canada, and was part of a heritage association which aimed to protect the area's unique old-time aesthetic.
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Lehmkuhl has captured valuable audio from the slamming doors, humming towel machines, and rushing water pipes, noting that the samples collected from these unlikely sources are perfect sound effects for an old-time saloon or ghost town.
—Ashwin Rodrigues, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Old-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old-time. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.
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