How to Use old-time in a Sentence

old-time

adjective
Definition of old-timenext
Synonyms for old-timenext
  • The old-time novelty of Morse code is part of the appeal.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
  • The Dodgers used to pipe in old-time music, and there was a 1970s TV that showed replays of classic games.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • The house takes you back in history with its old-time charm and details.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2023
  • So did the Colored Waifs’ Home and the widow of an old-time musician who got $50 a week for years.
    — Larry Tye, Fortune, 4 May 2024
  • Beckett is happy to meet Edgar, something of an old-time big name in his field.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
  • At around six-foot-three, Boyce is perched higher than most at the old-time diner table.
    — Lawrence Burney, Vulture, 5 June 2024
  • To add to the old-time charm, the order counters include chunky cash registers and '80s menu boards.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
  • This was the old-time style, which is a little bit lower, a little bit funkier.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Fresh beef is hand-pressed on the griddle and served with American cheese on a simple, old-time 5-inch bun.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2024
  • The 40-something from Medford, Mass., channels the old-time sounds of the Mississippi blues.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • Dupee said the theater is a recreation of an old-time movie theater that utilizes a marquee from New Hampshire.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Joe Thompson, then 86, was an old-time fiddler and a proponent of Black string band music.
    — Janay Kingsberry, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • These changes were explained to me vividly by a US old-time government contractor, Mike, who sat with me on the same flight.
    — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey host a night with old-time and modern performers.
    — Mike Hughes, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Brass bands belting out old-time Western folk classics.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2023
  • Students fill the living room with old-time bluegrass, a sound heard less and less in this changing community.
    — Ella Adams, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
  • After releasing his first body of work since 2018’s Poison, Swizz hopes to unload new projects with some of his old-time pals, Wayne and Jadakiss, later this year.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Among them: a railroad depot built in the 1890s that became a beloved community event space and home to weekly old-time music shows.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
  • There’s also live music, a petting zoo, campfire cooking, old-time games and an antique car show.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The wooden pews in the Ryman are much less amenable to concert-goers’ backsides than the old-time preacher man’s words were for the congregation’s insides.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The Rays have a knack for using advanced data to underscore old-time wisdom, like the classic advice to a wild pitcher: throw strikes, Babe Ruth’s dead.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • Her sound is anchored in old-time music but would play well on a modern-day bluegrass or Americana radio show.
    — Jenna Schnuer For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • To these aspects of paradise could be added the ones that remained from the old-time rural Arcadia going back to the previous century.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • This old-time drink powder flavors our brownies and the cocoa-marshmallow creme frosting.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The decision to appear in the film’s epilogue, which is shot as an old-time radio play, came almost by default but took on a larger meaning for the director.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Dillon’s score recreates styles from the era, including old-time string music, Piedmont blues and African-American gospel.
    — Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Ferrell speaks — and sings — in her own language, blending country, bluegrass, jazz, pop, old-time, and ragtime, with a stage aesthetic that’s like a hillbilly Moulin Rouge.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • An eminent old-time historian wrote that the Indians called the river Aquahung.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • The old-time Sicilians would take grapes by the pound or tonnage and field blend them, in other words, sangiovese, merlot, moscato, crush and de-stem all the grapes together and ferment together. ...
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
  • Another trick that old-time cyclists showed me was to superglue a nonmagnetic ball bearing into the bolt head.
    — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023

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