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
• 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
• 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
• More concerning is how many of the old guard seem to prefer it that way.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz at Work, 4 Nov. 2019
• Bronny, an 18-year-old guard, and Bryce, a 15-year-old forward, are playing on the same team for the first time.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024