How to Use old hat in a Sentence

old hat

adjective
  • Making hit movies is old hat for him.
  • I suppose my favorite joke's a bit old hat by now.
  • All of this has already become old hat for them at the monastery.
    — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • An old hat style that created problems years ago has returned.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
  • Thinking back to these moments made this portion of the cooking process seem like old hat.
    — Rebecca White, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2020
  • By the time of Rebel Heart in 2015, is this just old hat for you?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Others may not share your enthusiasm for something that is new to you but old hat to them.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Someday, talking about the sheer size of the facility will be old hat - but not just yet.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Many business leaders continue to practice old hat tricks from the dark ages.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Pledges by college students to eschew drugs and alcohol are old hat.
    — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2017
  • For Rypien, who ran pro-style sets at Boise State, much of it was old hat.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Personally, renting a car is old hat.
    — Hannah Chubb, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Of course, the idea of staking out a particular area for scrutiny is old hat.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The superhero who must hide his nature from the authorities is old hat in comics.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Clothes shops that closed in March are sitting on stockpiles of this season’s fashions that will soon be old hat.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • By mid-2019, conflicts of this sort were old hat for the staff and T_D both.
    — Robert Peck, Wired, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Being a diverse artist works for Nelly, and changing up genres and scenery is old hat.
    — Mark Gray, PEOPLE.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The crocodile tears come easy for Drews, as these kinds of scenes are practically old hat by now.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • At the age of 20, being a rising star is old hat for Maisy Stella.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The action of being frenetic and trying to search for your legally winning gotcha was old hat.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The newer hat was made because the centuries-old hat is delicate after hundreds of years of wear and tear.
    — Ben Hohenstatt, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2019
  • To Zuffenhausen heads, the story is old hat, but for casual fans of the marque, here’s a brief recap.
    — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Selling out a concert on one of the hottest, stickiest nights of the summer is old hat for Whiskey Myers.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The all-inclusive resorts, trendy restaurants, and complete lack of need for any Spanish language were old hat to me.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Though Derby is old hat for Fatone, new this year was his daughter, Briahna, at his side.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2022
  • Learning a new position in the NFL is already old hat for the 22-year-old.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • This is becoming old hat for Brown, who has now coordinated one of the country's top units for each of the past four seasons.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
  • But ultimately, this whole day was old hat for Whoopi, who already got to meet Pope Francis on her own last year.
    — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 14 June 2024
  • The outing was old hat for Deinlein, 55, who visits Portland clubs at least once a month with her husband.
    — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 20 May 2018
  • This is getting to be old hat for Combs, who won new artist of the year at the rival Country Music Assn.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2019

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