graybeard

Example Sentences

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It’s a conceit that pays off the second a shambolic Michael Keaton makes his entrance as a graybeard puttering about a near-derelict Wayne Manor.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2022

Sixteen years into the experiment, Twitter is a graybeard by internet years and by corporate standards.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022

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

From Fox News • Sep. 27, 2021

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