graybeard

Example Sentences

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They might be a reality again as he keeps scoring into his graybeard years.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2022

He isn’t the only graybeard playing at least one more season.

From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2021

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

From Fox News • Sep. 27, 2021

In Jakarta, a graybeard captain, speaking to me on the condition of anonymity, described the attitude of the new owners toward their pilots.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 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