How To Use Old-timer In A Sentence
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Many old-timers remember the romance of tuning in to the radio shows.
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`You'd best have proof of that remark, old-timer ," he replied, unworried.
PAINT THE WIND
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As he bounded in looking fresh, relaxed and incredibly cheery, I noticed the charm that might grate with cynical newspapermen and City old-timers.
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There's the cold-eyed, creepy stillness and bottled aggression of the ex-military types, the jovial Swanndri bonhomie of the hunters, a swash of piratical old-timers and some adenoidal gun dorks.
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There's mutual respect among featured surfers of different generations, as if the old-timers, gnarly in years and the kind of waves they pursued, are passing on the baton.
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Trying to figure out why the old-timers in internet audio are not getting their props is asking the wrong question.
Questions for Startup Founders
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She had all the tricks old-timers were taught to enthral connoisseurs.
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Evading the police - prominent amongst their number are the requisite hotheaded, ambitious youngster and world-weary old-timer - the assassin hides out in a rooms-by-the-quarter-hour hotel.
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Ex-pat old-timers say it's the first six months of expatriation that are the worst.
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All ages of trees, from saplings to the old-timers, create a multistoried canopy allowing light to enter the gaps and stimulate new growth.
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There were conferences on the quay between important shore personages and our captain and chief medical officer; and a few of us, old-timers by now, leaned over the rail and joked about being back in the paperwork department again.
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But the other half, the old-timers who scrutinize every letter of every policy resolution for any hint of dilution or compromise, would not be so easily persuaded.
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Old-timers may find support for their constant laments that the game is steadily going downhill by citing the glittering example of 19th Century owner Chris Von der Ahe.
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The objective of the meet would be to serve as a platform to channel the collective wisdom of old-timers and youthful enthusiasm to chart out the future of the institution.
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He had been busy accumulating knowledge, and stories told to him by his grandfather and other old-timers had fired his imagination.
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The DPJ is stuffed with backbenchers loyal to Ichiro Ozawa, an old-timer who resigned from the party leadership because of a fund-raising scandal but who still undermines Mr Kan.
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It had been an old-timer, with a long white beard and a Gabby Hayes hat.
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More likely is that the Old Firm and the other 10 SPL clubs will continue to act like two old-timers snarling at each other across a park bench.
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The old world charm of the former building and its ambience are something that old-timers still miss.
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An old-timer walked by, picked one up, leafed through its pages and said:
Childhood Factories
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It was my delight to watch and speak with some of the old-timers there, and one chap used to astonish me by washing his hands, scooping the dross from the surface of some molten metal, then splashing his hands in it!
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The jazz club always has a good mixture of old-timers and new faces.
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It's about two old-timers who live alone, unmarried, on a farm.
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The sources he uses are a combination of oral history - that is, he talked to many old-timers - and an assiduous search of local newspapers in the Clyde area.
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Our first stop was the Forge, where a bunch of Old-Timers sat drinking beer on the wooden porch.
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What do some of you old-timers, think about "Tweety" with a picture of a budgie?
GRINGOS AND GRINGAS....what's in an appelation?
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I think that must have been how it felt to live on the frontier, isolated from larger world events, working as the old-timers said from ‘can’ to ‘can't’ and letting those outlanders take care of themselves.
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When they come in early autumn, the old-timers call them `line storms", since they demarcate the boundary line between summer and fall.
THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
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Telling this story has reminded me of an old bloke that used to work on our shift, a proper old-timer, years of experience and the stories to go with it.
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Grizzled old-timers of Forty Mile and Circle City, sour doughs with leathern jaws and bean-calloused stomachs, called up dream memories of chickens and green things at mention of his name.
THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
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When they come in early autumn, the old-timers call them `line storms", since they demarcate the boundary line between summer and fall.
THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
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Armed with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, he sat for hours listening to the tales of the old-timers, whose ranks included Rube Marquard, Sam Crawford, Fred Snodgrass, Joe Wood, and Paul Waner.
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These are old-timers that came up through the Depression, scraping by and living the hard way.
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He would mysteriously shake so badly sometimes that old-timers recommended a large brandy.
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No doubt George Clooney, Pierce Brosnan and other smoothies will pester their agents to get the part, while old-timers like Omar Sharif might see it as a suitable way to round off a long career.
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But old-timers say, wall-writings were an effective means of communication.
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Gorman cares about oral history and urges other unions to get out and contact their old-timers before their experiences are lost forever.
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One wonders, however, whether the old-timers on the population-policy team will be able to learn the new disciplines necessary in these circumstances.
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If you want what old-timers used to call their pannikin of rum, you'll be welcome to it.
The Pagan Madonna
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Black inner-city cowboys have been racing their horses at the Speedway since before even the old-timers can remember.
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Does it bother you if I stir it with my fingers, old-timer?
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Still, as any old-timer on the terrace of either the ground or the gallery will tell you, in football as in art it's all been done before.
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Ten years ago, I was the old-timer computer expert and student issues researcher for the student government at the University of British Columbia.
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With classic hits like Nothing Else Matters, Enter Sandman, and the chilling One these old-timers of metal have something for everyone.
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When Margaret called on Molly, she found her propped up in bed, staring out the window at the new riding ring where several old-timers were exercising the horses.
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Ants are attracted to the sweet syrup in peony’s flower buds, but are not needed, as the old-timers will tell you, for flower production.
The secret to growing fabulous peonies « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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They're both appealingly self-aware of pop's limitations; and, indeed, of their own, as old-timers in a teen-orientated genre.
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It’s a tight labor market, and we are warned by a gringo old-timer, “Every guy around this town who owns a pencil is an architect, and every guy who owns a trowel is a contractor.”
Gringos in Paradise
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The jazz club always has a good mixture of old-timers and new faces.
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Further along, past the stoic old-timers playing bocci, and a wet-suited man struggling to rig up his windsurfer, a derelict concrete edifice looms high over the beach.
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The stories have been told and retold where old-timers gather together to reminisce about others days.
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Maybe it takes riding the landscape with a native or old-timer who can point something out, to let you know how the geography has changed.
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Interviews with old-timers and vintage footage blend well with gorgeous snowy scenery and soft Gaelic music to paint a flattering picture of this latterly beleaguered resort.
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Guy with a hook hand lived in here, the old-timers saic used to kidnap bad little boys and gut them with his hook. '
Deal Breaker
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As a bill extending Russia's presidency from a four - to six-year term barreled through the Russian legislature on Friday, it fell to the old-timers from the Communist Party to put up a fight.
Free Internet Press
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Old-timers recall barefoot children scampering into the woods to hide when the first cars rattled into their villages in the 1950s.
Oil Spill Threatens Way Of Life For American-Indian Fishing Villages
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Besides bringing to screen a rarely seen Shakespeare play in India, the film has another extra element, which will probably make old-timers more than nostalgic.
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He had been busy accumulating knowledge, and stories told to him by his grandfather and other old-timers had fired his imagination.
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Old-timers recollect long rows of bullock carts transporting goods from the warehouses at the Vallakkadavu dockyard.
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Post that was once delivered in just a day within the city now takes four to five days, old-timers note.
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The record may well do for these assorted old-timers what the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon achieved for veteran Cuban musicians such as Ibrahim Ferrer.
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Amid the chaos sits old-timer Howard, the revise sub-editor, who still remembers the days when journalists knew that Woking wasn't in Kent and that battalion has two Ts.
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The sheriff, of course, an old-timer, and the undersheriff, but neither of those would be out here.
THE WAILING WIND
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It suffers from a surprising First Movie generic problem; interior monologue voice-over, which is odd given that the Weitz brothers, whilst not old-timers, are not newbies either.
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Old-timers returned to the world of arc-lights sending out a clear signal that age has not dimmed their interest in celluloid.
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In River Pigs and Cayuses, he gathers stories from old-timers in Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
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The egg-and-tomato treatment he received at the hands of Congressmen in the Mumbai University hall (front campus) is still recalled by old-timers.
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I say I think I can recommend the book because, belonging as I do to the hairy-eared old-timers, I may not be in the book's true target audience.
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`Sounds like the start of old-timer 's disease,' my mum said, and it was terrifying, one more thing for my wife to worry about.
MAN AND WIFE
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According to the inhabitants, many left when their children bought flats and moved to the mainland, leaving the island with just some old-timers.
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Sometimes a gap-toothed old-timer comes to her door and screams for some peace.
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The old-timers meanwhile resisted dilution of the great franchise enjoyed by the name.
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Australia's third biggest bank is facing a difficult upcoming AGM as a well-regarded bank manager runs for the board against two old-timers with a bit of baggage.
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These multitude blunders of the FFI 2004 only confirm the opinion that the organizers should be comprised of young people, instead of old-timers who suddenly resurface with the revival of the film scene.
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But many old-timers do not like the new arrivals, especially now that some of the beaches have been opened up to the public.
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Our first stop was the Forge, where a bunch of Old-Timers sat drinking beer on the wooden porch.
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But, in adopting a technique which was widely used 150 years ago, you can easily slip into the habit of writing in the style which the old-timers used.
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Indeed, Elmer was raised on what old-timers down home still call the Island, a 2,000-acre tract of low-lying sand and black gumbo that the Mississippi periodically reclaimed.
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And while old-timers continue to pay homage to him, the next generation is probably not aware of the tremendous void his death has left for Jazz music.
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No wonder old-timers say, ‘They just don't make them like these anymore.’
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But Ali did something the old-timers used to do.
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‘The movement has always had a lot of old-timers, and a lot of vets,’ said Bourgeois, a Vietnam veteran himself.
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"A bunch of God-damn pot hunters," was how one St. Catharine's old-timer characterized the athletes who jumped into unfamiliar club kit to row just for the week.
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Since varnish is a more durable than lacquer and was in use before polyurethane was invented, it tends to be favored by many old-timers, if for no other reason than it works.
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As late as the 1990s, some old-timers from Bishop [California, a town near Manzanar], were adamant that the internees had been "coddled," and that there never were guards or guard towers.
Bringing Dark Times to Light
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Some old-timers, like this reviewer, muttered that it might be time to return a little closer to the balance of solemnity that formerly marked such occasions.
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Wall Street's old-timers knew from hard experience that, despite the hype, the market could not escape the law of gravity.
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Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld found him there in the last days of Prohibition, "an old-timer in the profession," pining for the lost days of glorious garnish: "He'll befriend the first man who seriously asks him for a brandy crusta.
Consider the Trimmings
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But speak to old-timers and they mention two suspicious deaths in the 1960s, both recorded as accidents.
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A very few of the old-timers are still around to reminiscence those days.
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The fact that these crochety old-timers continue to use those words simply means that none of them have read a book since Barry Goldwater was running for President.
Who are the Oath Keepers?
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Presentation is sweet - but will old-timers appreciate the browser taking away their ability to change font sizes through the pull-down menu?
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It's a very special art to cook on an open fire just like the old-timers used to do.
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Those here before those dates were genuine old-timers, and those who came thereafter were newcomers, although there were degrees in that definition.
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The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below.
To Build A Fire
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Old-timers will recall "hoop poles", tall slender young saplings of shagbark hickory that were split and fashioned with the "drawshave" into barrel hoops.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
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Sitting centre-stalls, listening to the opening bombast of the Brahms First, I saw the old-timers around me beam with relief and satisfaction.
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‘Some old-timers don't want to bring up the past,’ Gee explained.
