Examples of old-timer in a Sentence
a group of old-timers playing shuffleboard
old-timers in the fishing industry couldn't remember a time when catches were so low
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The housing tide is shifting, and for now, the edge has gone to the stodgy old-timers.
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
In the last few months, six people have moved into the town, most of them relatives of the old-timers.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Apollo's old-timers are heartened that the 43-year-old Isaacman is accelerating the pace of Artemis launches to more closely match Apollo's speed and safety record.
—Arkansas Online, 31 Mar. 2026
Yet many of the old-timers and young tech workers who live here seem to have accepted the coming changes as an unavoidable reality of California’s deepening housing crisis.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
In the last few months, six people have moved into the town, most of them relatives of the old-timers.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Apollo's old-timers are heartened that the 43-year-old Isaacman is accelerating the pace of Artemis launches to more closely match Apollo's speed and safety record.
—Arkansas Online, 31 Mar. 2026
Yet many of the old-timers and young tech workers who live here seem to have accepted the coming changes as an unavoidable reality of California’s deepening housing crisis.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
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“Old-timer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old-timer. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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