How to Use old hat in a Sentence

old hat

adjective

• Making hit movies is old hat for him.
• I suppose my favorite joke's a bit old hat by now.
• By the time of Rebel Heart in 2015, is this just old hat for you?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2023
• By mid-2019, conflicts of this sort were old hat for the staff and T_D both.
  — Robert Peck, Wired, 3 Aug. 2020
• This latest slip-up is all old hat for the Weasleys, though.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Jan. 2022
• All of this has already become old hat for them at the monastery.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Then again, beating long odds is old hat for these twins.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2018
• This is all old hat to an ageless wonder with so many rings.
  — Dennis Waszak Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2021
• Learning a new position in the NFL is already old hat for the 22-year-old.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• For Rypien, who ran pro-style sets at Boise State, much of it was old hat.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2019
• The original Omicron strain was known as BA.1, but that's old hat by now.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 1 June 2022
• This is getting to be old hat for Combs, who won new artist of the year at the rival Country Music Assn.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2019
• The Clemson Tigers are old hats at this Championship stuff.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
• Thinking back to these moments made this portion of the cooking process seem like old hat.
  — Rebecca White, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2020
• Someday, talking about the sheer size of the facility will be old hat - but not just yet.
  — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Like the idea of a blond Bond, No Time to Die is a new film about an old character, and hence an odd jumble of cutting edge and old hat.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
• Emmy snubs are beyond old hat for David Simon at this point.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2022
• Other high-end British brands that will be joining the trip include Harrods and Lock & Co., the world's oldest hat shop.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 18 Oct. 2019
• Clothes shops that closed in March are sitting on stockpiles of this season’s fashions that will soon be old hat.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• For folks in the Bay Area, some of Kellogg’s tips — carry a reusable bag, don’t use a straw — are already old hat.
  — Andrea L. Dooley, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2019
• That being said, the song is nothing terribly new -- the beat and melody sound a bit old hat, and the song sounds like one added to fill out the album's 57-minute runtime.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2020
• Others may not share your enthusiasm for something that is new to you but old hat to them.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2019
• For now, because, nights like these are swiftly becoming old hat for the 2018 second-round pick out of Duke.
  — oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2020
• Being a diverse artist works for Nelly, and changing up genres and scenery is old hat.
  — Mark Gray, PEOPLE.com, 19 Sep. 2021
• The outing was old hat for Deinlein, 55, who visits Portland clubs at least once a month with her husband.
  — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 20 May 2018
• Of course, the idea of staking out a particular area for scrutiny is old hat.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2023
• To Zuffenhausen heads, the story is old hat, but for casual fans of the marque, here’s a brief recap.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2017
• One generation’s must-see becomes the next one’s old hat.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2021
• In an age when health is wealth, hotel spas have, ironically, become old hat.
  — Jillian Dara, Robb Report, 25 May 2023
• If all of that is rudimentary and old hat to you, the spa offers more esoteric treatments.
  — Carole Sovocool, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024