old-timer
Example Sentences
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“When we first started,” Hamalainen said, “it was common for an old-timer to take a new hire aside and say, ‘Well, kid, you’ll have a job for life.’
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2024
Luis Angel Firpo in the old-timer category and Theresa Kibby in the women’s trailblazer category were the other fighters in the class.
From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2023
An unexpected departure for the duo was “The Straight Story,” a 1999 Disney film starring Richard Farnsworth as an old-timer driving cross-country on his riding lawn mower.
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2022
“I’m an old-timer, and I find it hard to believe that anything can be so weak,” Cheng says.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 12, 2022
An old-timer made his hand into a cone and hollered nonsense through it.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
