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
  • Floppy ears shade their eyes from the sun like an old-time bank teller’s visor.
    Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
  • 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
  • So, Kershaw’s rising to this occasion had a certain old-time feel to it.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 July 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 | McOlurso@al.com, 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

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