How to Use graybeard in a Sentence

graybeard

noun

• The wait looked to be about 2-1/2 hours, according to a venue stagehand, a graybeard in a black T-shirt.
  — Jerry Beilinson, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2014
• Lang’s futile search for a home for his graybeard reprise nicely mimicked how unsettled hippiedom’s legacy still is.
  — Tom Carson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Clerics tend to be graybeards who have distinguished themselves through scholarship.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
• Chara assisted on Carlo’s goal, while both graybeard Sharks logged 0-0—0.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Every rebound, opponents knew this literal graybeard was going to be right there, maybe grabbing the ball, maybe tipping it.
  — Mike Jensen, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2019
• Forty-year-old Manu Ginobili isn’t the only graybeard on the Spurs who is turning back the clock this season.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Dec. 2017
• What gives Feldman conviction is not merely test results, but also the long view of a Valley graybeard.
  — Fortune, 19 Aug. 2019
• The captain of this enterprise is a graybeard named Darcy, played by none other than Patrick Stewart.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2016
• Yes, the blue hairs and graybeards had old-school cameras for their audience with the King, perfect for a race car owner who keeps tabs of his meet-and-greets on a paper schedule.
  — Dan Gelston, The Seattle Times, 30 June 2017
• In Jakarta, a graybeard captain, speaking to me on the condition of anonymity, described the attitude of the new owners toward their pilots.
  — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2019
• No one is more appreciative of the veteran additions than Saffold, who was the lone graybeard on an impossibly young offensive line the last two years.
  — Vincent Bonsignore, Orange County Register, 6 June 2017
• At 39, Beyoncé — who per academy tradition lost the major prizes but won several genre awards — was practically the graybeard of the night.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• The Vikings in the second half played like a team in fear of screwing up as opposed to the confident gang of ballers who were the last threat to the graybeards of the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins.
  — Brian Murphy, Twin Cities, 3 Jan. 2017