How to Use old guard in a Sentence

old guard

noun
  • So look for the hits from the old guard to keep coming Bernie’s way.
    Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 25 Jan. 2020
  • And for the first time, the old guard was close to losing all three, Austin said.
    Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The old guard will say, ooh la la and the newbies will say, wow!
    Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 8 July 2019
  • Investors shouldn’t be too quick to count out the old guard.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • Part of the region’s old guard, Bostock came on the scene in 2002.
    Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The 26-year-old guard’s fourth NBA season has been one of fits and starts.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2021
  • All of which leaves the old guard at a distance, at least for the moment.
    Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Hearts was shot six times, and a 46-year-old guard was shot twice in the stomach.
    Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The 18-year-old guard will not travel with the Spurs on their three-game road trip.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The point still stands that Utah Tech might play out as a last look at the old guard and a first look at the new.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The new guard also looks older and more guardian than the old guard.
    Scott Galloway, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Most of the old guard is not incentivized to take risks.
    Charlotte Alter, Time, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Will Saturday be a final farewell to the old guard and the first look at the new one?
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
  • That leaves Block and Crow alone in the old guard, moving forward.
    oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Like Jeffries, many in the party see Clyburn as a bridge between the old guard and the new one.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • With the cast expanding this season, some of the old guard will have to die.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2018
  • But the old guard has lost its hold, and that trendline doesn’t seem likely to change.
    Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In the next two years, the old guard board members, many of whom had served since the group’s creation, all dropped off.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2021
  • He was seen as younger, hipper, and more urbane than the old guard moguls.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2022
  • His critics see him as a member of the same old guard the protest movement hoped to oust.
    Washington Post, 12 June 2021
  • The 33-year-old guard has been one of the steadiest shooters on the roster.
    Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2021
  • This paradigm shift didn’t sit well with the old guard.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The new guard is also eager to push out the old guard, Semati said.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 16 June 2021
  • The old guard is stepping in saying, who, slow down. Don't try this at home.
    Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • The old guard assured me that the new guard did indeed depart from here.
    Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • For many on the New Right, the magazine represents the old guard.
    Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Will the old guard stay in power a bit longer, or is now the moment the league moves into the future?
    Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2021
  • So far, however, the trade dispute has played into the hands of the old guard.
    Weijian Shan, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
  • The group met secretly in an old guard tower near Rösrath, a town just east of Cologne.
    John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Nonetheless, the existence of a big divide between the new and old guards in entertainment is taken as gospel by the unions.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023

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