How to Use old-timer in a Sentence

old-timer

noun

• The owner and barista hold court with the two old-timers at the counter.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• The old-timers had sheep and sheep country in their blood.
  — Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024
• With two outs, the Rays put five straight men on base and the old-timers were dancing in the aisles.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• Other old-timers and close friends stopped by to lend a hand.
  — Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
• Other old-timers and close friends stopped by to lend a hand.
  — Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
• Sosa hugged the old-timers on stage and the current players seemed thrilled to meet him.
  — Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
• An old-timer from the van, Ray Insalaco, came in to help box up the desks.
  — Jay Kirk, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• But the membership began to decline in the 2010s as the old-timers died off.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• Some days Mager will stop to have a Key West old-timer tell a story from his porch.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• For decades, old-timers like me figured there was just no way anyone could get to 894.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
• Does the town still have a past outside the fading memories of its old-timers?
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
• But don’t think your archives are only for your old-timers.
  — Samantha Reynolds, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The older Democrats in my area are old-timers in overalls who’ve been farming their whole lives.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
• The older Democrats in my area are old-timers in overalls who’ve been farming their whole lives.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
• Get these two old-timers their AARP cards and shingles shots already.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Which is maybe closer to what some of the neighborhood’s old-timers loved about it to begin with.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Dec. 2024
• Which is maybe closer to what some of the neighborhood’s old-timers loved about it to begin with.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Dec. 2024
• Forst praised Kotsay for his ability to teach the game to a roster that was full of first-timers and old-timers.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• Fortunately, the old-timers’ tales and warnings proved to be a bit overblown.
  — Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• This isn’t some old-timer’s tall tale: Lori Ford has been walking two miles down a dirt road, with snow past her knees, just to get to work this month.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The old-timers in the audience were thrilled to take another drive down Kingsley Street.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• Some old-timers would tough it out in tennis shoes to be extra quiet while walking through the woods.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
• An old-timer, Grandma, has been a regular for 13 years.
  — Juli Berwald, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• Its inhabitants count among some of the last old-timers on the block in the center of the capital’s tourist district.
  — Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
• Its inhabitants count among some of the last old-timers on the block in the center of the capital’s tourist district.
  — Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
• Audrey sees anybody new in the silo — plus some old-timers like Eater — as a drain on the dwindling food supplies.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
• Audrey sees anybody new in the silo — plus some old-timers like Eater — as a drain on the dwindling food supplies.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
• In a few years, only old-timers could remember the glory days of Black baseball in Fort Worth.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2024
• The old-timer included, well, an old-timer, a fella in overalls with his forearm resting on a barrel.
  — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Hence, the elimination of the 'old-timer' from the signage.
  — Anna Commander gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025