How to Use old-time in a Sentence

old-time

adjective

• Wait a second, the retort goes, the old-time adage is that to the victor go the spoils.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
• The old-time novelty of Morse code is part of the appeal.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
• The Dodgers used to pipe in old-time music, and there was a 1970s TV that showed replays of classic games.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
• The house takes you back in history with its old-time charm and details.
  — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2023
• Maybe such old-time sage advice still has legs in the days of advancing AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
• So did the Colored Waifs’ Home and the widow of an old-time musician who got $50 a week for years.
  — Larry Tye, Fortune, 4 May 2024
• At the time, those came in classic green bottles from old-time perfumers’ shelves.
  — Jennifer Weil, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
• At the time, those came in classic green bottles from old-time perfumers’ shelves.
  — Jennifer Weil, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
• Beckett is happy to meet Edgar, something of an old-time big name in his field.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
• At around six-foot-three, Boyce is perched higher than most at the old-time diner table.
  — Lawrence Burney, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• To add to the old-time charm, the order counters include chunky cash registers and '80s menu boards.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• This was the old-time style, which is a little bit lower, a little bit funkier.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
• Fresh beef is hand-pressed on the griddle and served with American cheese on a simple, old-time 5-inch bun.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2024
• First up at 10 a.m. will be Whole Hog, which plays bluegrass, Irish, western swing and old-time music.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2025
• The 40-something from Medford, Mass., channels the old-time sounds of the Mississippi blues.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• Garden supplies move briskly; there’s stuff for all ages, like in an old-time general store.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2025
• Dupee said the theater is a recreation of an old-time movie theater that utilizes a marquee from New Hampshire.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 9 Aug. 2024
• Joe Thompson, then 86, was an old-time fiddler and a proponent of Black string band music.
  — Janay Kingsberry, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• These changes were explained to me vividly by a US old-time government contractor, Mike, who sat with me on the same flight.
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey host a night with old-time and modern performers.
  — Mike Hughes, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2024
• Brass bands belting out old-time Western folk classics.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2023
• Students fill the living room with old-time bluegrass, a sound heard less and less in this changing community.
  — Ella Adams, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
• After releasing his first body of work since 2018’s Poison, Swizz hopes to unload new projects with some of his old-time pals, Wayne and Jadakiss, later this year.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2023
• Listen to old-time music, celebrate the Man of Steel, dig for dinosaur bones, hunt for Easter eggs or save lives by giving blood.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2025
• Among them: a railroad depot built in the 1890s that became a beloved community event space and home to weekly old-time music shows.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
• There’s also live music, a petting zoo, campfire cooking, old-time games and an antique car show.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• The wooden pews in the Ryman are much less amenable to concert-goers’ backsides than the old-time preacher man’s words were for the congregation’s insides.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2024
• The Rays have a knack for using advanced data to underscore old-time wisdom, like the classic advice to a wild pitcher: throw strikes, Babe Ruth’s dead.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 12 May 2023
• Her sound is anchored in old-time music but would play well on a modern-day bluegrass or Americana radio show.
  — Jenna Schnuer For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
• The rafters are 19th century mine timbers, the atmosphere is old-time ski club (authentic, not contrived), and the walls are covered in local ski lore.
  — Cassidy Randall, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025