How to Use old-time in a Sentence

old-time

adjective
  • Check out the old-time candies on your way out.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This old-time favorite is always a good idea.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This old-time favorite is always a good idea.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2026
  • This old-time favorite is always a good idea.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 23 June 2026
  • The house takes you back in history with its old-time charm and details.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Floppy ears shade their eyes from the sun like an old-time bank teller’s visor.
    — Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
  • Wait a second, the retort goes, the old-time adage is that to the victor go the spoils.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • The menu has evolved over time, but the restaurant has made a point of preserving its old-time charm.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • This was the old-time style, which is a little bit lower, a little bit funkier.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Beckett is happy to meet Edgar, something of an old-time big name in his field.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
  • Garden supplies move briskly; there’s stuff for all ages, like in an old-time general store.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2025
  • At around six-foot-three, Boyce is perched higher than most at the old-time diner table.
    — Lawrence Burney, Vulture, 5 June 2024
  • Maybe such old-time sage advice still has legs in the days of advancing AI.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • And the decor is still the same paneled walls with old-time ads for Nehi and Cepacol.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
  • An adventure with worms, good fat juicy old-time earthworms, moist and sexy and leaving their mucus on you.
    — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Porter promised a return to yesteryear in a speech that was a far cry from old-time political rhetoric.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Porter promised a return to yesteryear in a speech that was a far cry from old-time political rhetoric.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • So, Kershaw’s rising to this occasion had a certain old-time feel to it.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 July 2025
  • There’s also live music, a petting zoo, campfire cooking, old-time games and an antique car show.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 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
  • To add to the old-time charm, the order counters include chunky cash registers and '80s menu boards.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 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
  • An old-time tent, replete with a vanity table and bench, stands in the center of the first reception room.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
  • This old-time drink powder flavors our brownies and the cocoa-marshmallow creme frosting.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The trio of old-time ball knowers gathered twice to observe Nebraska at practice last summer.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey host a night with old-time and modern performers.
    — Mike Hughes, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 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
  • Texas’ temple of old-time Reuben or Ruthie deli sandwiches had not taken credit cards for 60 years.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2026

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