graybeard

Example Sentences

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Allen will be the graybeard of a Chargers receivers group that has several promising pass-catchers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025

He isn't the only graybeard playing at least one more season, though Chara won the Stanley Cup.

From Fox News • Sep. 27, 2021

The Stars also have talent up front in captain Jamie Benn, center Tyler Seguin and graybeard Joe Pavelski to matchup up with the Golden Knights’ talented forwards led by Mark Stone.

From Washington Times • Sep. 5, 2020

As the resident graybeard, he didn’t mind giving reporters some light trash talk.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2019

There was that tone in his voice, that marvelous warmth, that made them all look not at Heth but at Lee, the graybeard, the dark-eyed, the old man, the fighter.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara