Example sentences for: old-timers

How can you use “old-timers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I am not, alas, of their faith, but I had to admire the command these old-timers had of tribal languages in general and of pidgin in particular.

  • Few people knew any of it, besides some old-timers and a scattering of enthusiasts; "folk music" meant either the topical work of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly or the kind of art-song taxidermy practiced by the likes of the baritone John Jacob Niles.

  • To tease him I recently made a list of such phrases: It goes without saying..., I hardly need to point out..., It should be unnecessary to note that..., I will not insist on the point, but if I did... And there are others, old-timers such as Far be it from me to claim... .

  • Never mind that on Broadway, in 1948, long before "Rock Around the Clock," the score to As the Girls Go by old-timers Jimmy ("Sunny Side of the Street") McHugh and Harold ("Time on My Hands") Adamson included a number called "Rock!

  • \zäyäntz] rather than “Say, Jack”: after all, there might still be some old-timers who remember the film actress Signe Hasso as well as words like sign, assign, consign, condign, malign, deign, feign, reign, etc., hence know that in a medial - gn -, the - g - is not always articulated.


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