Example sentences for: oldies

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

  • In hearings last week, a House committee heard from various Platters, Drifters, Coasters, and Vogues all requesting that federal law be amended to protect oldies groups from other performers using the their group-names.

  • He gives us a history of the term "oldies but goodies," and mentions "In the Still of the Night," scarcely noticed when it came out in 1956, but by 1959 a staple of the oldies circuit.

  • For oldies like me the most intriguing channel is Turner Classic Movies.

  • The bands are loud — they have to be to compete with the groups of Elvis imitators in black leather jackets and sideburns who also lay claim to some of this great free space, dancing in circles to the oldies on enormous boomboxes.

  • But not all of the oldies are goodies: Edmund Spenser's dedications of his (nine) books vary from one-liners to some very sleepy sycophancies many times that length.


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