How to Use old-time in a Sentence

old-time

adjective

• Check out the old-time candies on your way out.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
• This old-time favorite is always a good idea.
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 23 June 2026
• The house takes you back in history with its old-time charm and details.
  — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2023
• Floppy ears shade their eyes from the sun like an old-time bank teller’s visor.
  — Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
• The docent, red glasses in hand, slumps against the old-time cannon.
  — George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
• 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 menu has evolved over time, but the restaurant has made a point of preserving its old-time charm.
  — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
• This was the old-time style, which is a little bit lower, a little bit funkier.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
• For this tigress, the elder Singh urged a haka, an old-time beat.
  — Leslie E. Tassell, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026
• Beckett is happy to meet Edgar, something of an old-time big name in his field.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 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
• At around six-foot-three, Boyce is perched higher than most at the old-time diner table.
  — Lawrence Burney, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• Maybe such old-time sage advice still has legs in the days of advancing AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
• And the decor is still the same paneled walls with old-time ads for Nehi and Cepacol.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
• An adventure with worms, good fat juicy old-time earthworms, moist and sexy and leaving their mucus on you.
  — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
• Porter promised a return to yesteryear in a speech that was a far cry from old-time political rhetoric.
  — George Skelton, Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2026
• So, Kershaw’s rising to this occasion had a certain old-time feel to it.
  — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 July 2025
• There’s also live music, a petting zoo, campfire cooking, old-time games and an antique car show.
  — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• The shop, both a drug store and old-time fountain shop, offers fountain sodas as well as subs and sandwiches.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026
• 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
• Everybody has a favorite old-time neighborhood pizza stand or cafe.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2026
• To add to the old-time charm, the order counters include chunky cash registers and '80s menu boards.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 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
• An old-time tent, replete with a vanity table and bench, stands in the center of the first reception room.
  — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
• This old-time drink powder flavors our brownies and the cocoa-marshmallow creme frosting.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Aug. 2022
• 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 trio of old-time ball knowers gathered twice to observe Nebraska at practice last summer.
  — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey host a night with old-time and modern performers.
  — Mike Hughes, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 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