How to Use old-timer in a Sentence

old-timer

noun

• The owner and barista hold court with the two old-timers at the counter.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• With two outs, the Rays put five straight men on base and the old-timers were dancing in the aisles.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• An old-timer from the van, Ray Insalaco, came in to help box up the desks.
  — Jay Kirk, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• But the membership began to decline in the 2010s as the old-timers died off.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• Some days Mager will stop to have a Key West old-timer tell a story from his porch.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• But don’t think your archives are only for your old-timers.
  — Samantha Reynolds, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Get these two old-timers their AARP cards and shingles shots already.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Forst praised Kotsay for his ability to teach the game to a roster that was full of first-timers and old-timers.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• Fortunately, the old-timers’ tales and warnings proved to be a bit overblown.
  — Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• This isn’t some old-timer’s tall tale: Lori Ford has been walking two miles down a dirt road, with snow past her knees, just to get to work this month.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The old-timers in the audience were thrilled to take another drive down Kingsley Street.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• Some old-timers would tough it out in tennis shoes to be extra quiet while walking through the woods.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
• An old-timer, Grandma, has been a regular for 13 years.
  — Juli Berwald, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• In a few years, only old-timers could remember the glory days of Black baseball in Fort Worth.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2024
• An old-timer had told him that deer sightings bode well and so my father watched and waited, hoping for luck and chance.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• Cities that elect these positions are often old-timers.
  — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024
• But the feverish erosion has startled old-timers and newcomers alike.
  — Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2023
• Then an old-timer hoarse and exigent with years bugled like a braying donkey.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
• But her sweet spot was coastal people — firefighters and shrimpers, cooks and cops, loggers, politicians and old-timers — and history.
  — Mark Woolsey, ajc, 16 June 2023
• Floyd Brown, a 67-year-old wizened, devout drinker, said old-timers always avoided certain areas for fear of an apelike beast.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
• The latest installment of the old-timer action series promises to be Sylvester Stallone’s final mission with the world-saving team.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• This was always the best argument against claims from purists and old-timers that the sudden importance of shoe tech was ruining the beauty and simplicity of the sport.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
• The free programming drew families with young children, in awe of seeing the life-size version of their toys, and old-timers glad to park on viewing platforms with frozen lemonade in hand.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2023
• After property developers try to grab a rundown building, young gangsters try to throw people out of the building, drug addicts cause trouble and the old-timer heeds his neighbors’ calls and fights back.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• Impressive stuff, but the success of these old-timers also threw the continuing drought in new British global superstars into sharp relief.
  — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
• Other dedicated old-timers trickle in on e-bikes around noon with coolers full of Presidentes and sandwiches.
  — Allie Conti, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• Some designs simply can’t be improved upon: Park most new supercars next to a 58-year-old Lamborghini Miura and chances are the old-timer will command more attention than the upstart.
  — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
• The Mexican community in the southeast corner of Georgia expanded rapidly, and Ms. Castro, an old-timer, was much sought after.
  — Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Hall plays Jones as a wizened but exhausted old-timer, cranky about the changing times, while Reece’s Brux is defensive about his success and hilariously awkward in his need for validation from an icon.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• The California Issue Plans to build apartments have sparked a fight between progressive newcomers and nostalgic old-timers — with surprising allegiances in a writer’s hometown.
  — Daniel Duane, New York Times, 30 May 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024