old-timer

Example Sentences

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The University of Iowa’s Stanley Perlman, another coronavirus old-timer, says it’s important to keep looking for new human ones.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 11, 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

Time to head to an old-timer, to break bread with the past.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2022

Burdick was one of the most entertaining yarn-spinners Pope had ever met, which in retrospect he realized was probably a good reason not to enter into a legal contract with the old-timer.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022

In another sense, the tragedy of the once master pickpocket made him, for those brother old-timer hustlers, a “there but for the grace of God” symbol.

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