How to Use old-time in a Sentence
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The old-time novelty of Morse code is part of the appeal.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
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The house takes you back in history with its old-time charm and details.
—Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2023
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So did the Colored Waifs’ Home and the widow of an old-time musician who got $50 a week for years.
—Larry Tye, Fortune, 4 May 2024
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Beckett is happy to meet Edgar, something of an old-time big name in his field.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
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At around six-foot-three, Boyce is perched higher than most at the old-time diner table.
—Lawrence Burney, Vulture, 5 June 2024
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To add to the old-time charm, the order counters include chunky cash registers and '80s menu boards.
—Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
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This was the old-time style, which is a little bit lower, a little bit funkier.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
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The 40-something from Medford, Mass., channels the old-time sounds of the Mississippi blues.
—Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
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Joe Thompson, then 86, was an old-time fiddler and a proponent of Black string band music.
—Janay Kingsberry, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
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These changes were explained to me vividly by a US old-time government contractor, Mike, who sat with me on the same flight.
—Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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Brass bands belting out old-time Western folk classics.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2023
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After releasing his first body of work since 2018’s Poison, Swizz hopes to unload new projects with some of his old-time pals, Wayne and Jadakiss, later this year.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2023
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There’s also live music, a petting zoo, campfire cooking, old-time games and an antique car show.
—Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
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The wooden pews in the Ryman are much less amenable to concert-goers’ backsides than the old-time preacher man’s words were for the congregation’s insides.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2024
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The Rays have a knack for using advanced data to underscore old-time wisdom, like the classic advice to a wild pitcher: throw strikes, Babe Ruth’s dead.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 12 May 2023
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Her sound is anchored in old-time music but would play well on a modern-day bluegrass or Americana radio show.
—Jenna Schnuer For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
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This old-time drink powder flavors our brownies and the cocoa-marshmallow creme frosting.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
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The decision to appear in the film’s epilogue, which is shot as an old-time radio play, came almost by default but took on a larger meaning for the director.
—Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
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Dillon’s score recreates styles from the era, including old-time string music, Piedmont blues and African-American gospel.
—Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2024
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Ferrell speaks — and sings — in her own language, blending country, bluegrass, jazz, pop, old-time, and ragtime, with a stage aesthetic that’s like a hillbilly Moulin Rouge.
—Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
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The old-time Sicilians would take grapes by the pound or tonnage and field blend them, in other words, sangiovese, merlot, moscato, crush and de-stem all the grapes together and ferment together. ...
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
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Another trick that old-time cyclists showed me was to superglue a nonmagnetic ball bearing into the bolt head.
—Matt Jancer, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
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There was to be a hotel and re-creations of an old-time butcher shop, barbershop, a general store, haberdashery, pool hall, an old service station and a coal mine.
—John Bordsen, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
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Browse its old-time mercantile, tour a Western jail, or enjoy a farm-to-table meal at the vegan restaurant known for chef Youxiang Liu’s handmade Chinese dumplings.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
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For Dom Flemons, one of the festival’s headliners, old-time music has an inherent connection to face-to-face storytelling.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2024
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Throughout her career, she’s been drawn to dark and morose storytelling, which made the worlds of bluegrass and old-time music, two genres with no shortage of songs about premature deaths and horrific tragedy, a natural fit for a young Gerrard.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
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With Hollywood’s bulkiest coffers and most advanced technologies at his disposal, Villeneuve becomes a prophet in the wilderness, an evangelist for that old-time religion known as the movies.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2024
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Wade’s family appreciated music enough that her grandfather took her to the Floyd Country Store to hear old-time pickers on Friday nights and her grandmother bought her a guitar and lessons, but none of them actually played or sang.
—Jewly Hight, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
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There is definitely an old-time Saturday-morning cartoon aspect to the action and violence, and Boy’s inner monologue filtered through Benjamin makes that connection even stronger.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2024
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Are these platforms more like old-time phone companies: basically, open to everyone without filtering?
—Carrie Johnson, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
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