graybeard

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Recent Examples of graybeard Joe Thornton, the Bruins' No. 1 draft pick in 1997, is now an NHL graybeard. Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022 While Diener is the graybeard of the team, 24-year-old Sacar Anim is the youngest. Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2022 Tom Hanks, who became a star in 1984 with Splash, is now doing avuncular, graybeard roles. Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 June 2022 But the graybeard, six days shy of age 40, stopped 19 of 20 shots over the final 46:50 of regulation to send the Bruins and Capitals to overtime. BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021 See all Example Sentences for graybeard 
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Noun
  • Folks back in the day had Yoda as their feisty oldster and the kids now have Maz. 36.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • The Duke is the true tale of an eccentric oldster who, in 1961, stole a Francisco Goya painting of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • The patriarch played multiple instruments and even formed a small family quartet with his wife and two of their children.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The voters might want to cash in their IOU here, but something tells me the Globes have one truly trashy TV pick in them for this year and will get their Ryan Murphy on with a win for Javier Bardem as the domineering Menendez patriarch.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There were a lot of these old-timers at nostalgia-drag events—mobility impaired, sun-weathered to the point of absolute ravage, sometimes towing an oxygen tank.
    Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • It’s also sparked tension between old-timers clinging to their neighborhood’s middle-class roots and other city residents who embrace the coast as an urban oasis.
    Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Halfway down the Aegean coast, Smyrna, as Asia Minor ancients called it, was where East met West as an economic and cultural synapse at the end of the Silk Road.
    Alex Crevar, New York Times, 11 July 2024
  • Yet not only is there no Vena amoris (as it was dubbed), but there’s also little evidence to support the idea of ancients routinely wearing engagement rings.
    Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com, 2 May 2023
Noun
  • Heimann avoided cardigans with fusty suede elbow patches or hefty yarn that can invoke infirm geriatrics.
    Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Something similar happened at the other end of the age spectrum—a geriatric rumble.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • For example, the gaffer, Thomas Garreau, really found a solution for this quarry shot.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Available for just a day, Ripley and his gaffer, Mathias Peralta, used their own bulbs in the room’s fixtures to allow Peters 360-degree filming.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2024

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