How to Use old-time in a Sentence

old-time

adjective

• The old-time novelty of Morse code is part of the appeal.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
• The house takes you back in history with its old-time charm and details.
  — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Beckett is happy to meet Edgar, something of an old-time big name in his field.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
• At around six-foot-three, Boyce is perched higher than most at the old-time diner table.
  — Lawrence Burney, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• To add to the old-time charm, the order counters include chunky cash registers and '80s menu boards.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• This was the old-time style, which is a little bit lower, a little bit funkier.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
• The 40-something from Medford, Mass., channels the old-time sounds of the Mississippi blues.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• Joe Thompson, then 86, was an old-time fiddler and a proponent of Black string band music.
  — Janay Kingsberry, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Brass bands belting out old-time Western folk classics.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2023
• 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
• There’s also live music, a petting zoo, campfire cooking, old-time games and an antique car show.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This old-time drink powder flavors our brownies and the cocoa-marshmallow creme frosting.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Are these platforms more like old-time phone companies: basically, open to everyone without filtering?
  — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024