How to Use old-line in a Sentence

old-line

adjective

• These firms had been the envy of the old-line investment banking houses.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026
• When the old-line department stores, Hochschild’s and Hutzler’s, closed more than 35 years ago, other retailers arrived.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2026
• There were old-line Whigs who preferred some sort of compromise, and in the upper South, there were those who thought the Union was indivisible.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• Swing states with old-line communities like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
• The Chinese tech giant partners with old-line carmakers like Seres, Chery, and Beijing Auto.
  — Eunice Yoon, CNBC, 24 Nov. 2025
• That has included a growing number of tech and IT firms taking their place, pushing off the likes of print publishers and old-line industrial companies in the process.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
• The larger, at 31 Pratt, is the former headquarters of Society for Savings, an old-line bank whose roots stretched back to 1819.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026
• More practically, people on Netflix’s side might say that further industry consolidation is inevitable, given changing consumer habits and shifting business models for old-line media companies.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
• In 2010, Brown was serving on the board of the Historic Wilmington Foundation, an old-line preservation organization.
  — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
• And for the first time, top Wall Street banks weren’t just attracting WASP or old-line German Jewish men with family ties to banking, the historic mainstays of the finance world.
  — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
• Built on a hillside overlooking Vila Nova de Gaia (where most of the old-line port merchants are located) and the Douro River, the luxurious 82-room hotel gets its identity from the local wine trade.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 June 2026