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
  • The old-timers had sheep and sheep country in their blood.
    — Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 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
  • Other old-timers and close friends stopped by to lend a hand.
    — Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The older Democrats in my area are old-timers in overalls who’ve been farming their whole lives.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The older Democrats in my area are old-timers in overalls who’ve been farming their whole lives.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Get these two old-timers their AARP cards and shingles shots already.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Which is maybe closer to what some of the neighborhood’s old-timers loved about it to begin with.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Its inhabitants count among some of the last old-timers on the block in the center of the capital’s tourist district.
    — Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Audrey sees anybody new in the silo — plus some old-timers like Eater — as a drain on the dwindling food supplies.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, the two clueless old-timers in her orbit natter on about their man problems.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 9 Aug. 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
  • For years, Cooper says, old-timers at his plant in Toledo have warned that if wages rose too much, the company would move jobs to Mexico.
    — Andrea Hsu, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
  • That’s partly thanks to Harrison Ford and Neil Flynn’s easy old-timer chemistry.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
  • There is a brief mention of grumbling among old-timers that the neighborhood staple has forsaken its roots.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2024
  • There’s also plenty of long-term history here for us old-timers, with these two being old Smythe Division rivals.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025

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