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

But now, decades later, Creech is mostly known inside the walls of the Idaho Maximum Security Institution as just “Tom,” a generally well-behaved old-timer with a penchant for poetry.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 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 was afraid he’d want to wait to ask some of his old-timer railroad friends for their opinion.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey