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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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.
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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
The movie is all about old-timers, and it’s filled with real old-timers.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
Age mandates for trees worry some environmentalists Woodlands that are healthy, biodiverse and able to provide food and habitat for myriad species usually have a mix of tree types, from skinny saplings to looming old-timers.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 22 Jan. 2026
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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
The movie is all about old-timers, and it’s filled with real old-timers.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
Age mandates for trees worry some environmentalists Woodlands that are healthy, biodiverse and able to provide food and habitat for myriad species usually have a mix of tree types, from skinny saplings to looming old-timers.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Old-timer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old-timer. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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