time-honoured

ADJECTIVE
  1. acceptable for a long time
    time-honored customs
  2. honored because of age or long usage
    time-honored institutions

How To Use time-honoured In A Sentence

  • There is a time-honoured way of distinguishing between people who all want the same thing. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is the time-honoured English way. Times, Sunday Times
  • They depart in the time-honoured journeys in search for opportunity. Alamos: Still a boom to bust town, but with everlasting charm
  • She prefers, in that time-honoured tradition of serious musicians, to let the music do the talking.
  • The next stage of their attack – and attack is the time-honoured best form of defence, after all – is generally to repeat a variation of the hate speech of Janice Raymond as iterated in her transphobic screed The Transsexual Empire: the making of the she-male: Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
  • We'll let Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl complete that apothegm in the time-honoured way. Archive 2009-04-01
  • This story is based on those time-honoured economic concepts, namely supply and demand. The Times Literary Supplement
  • This story is based on those time-honoured economic concepts, namely supply and demand. The Times Literary Supplement
  • In doing so, she joined in with a time-honoured tradition of musicians taking a stance against war.
  • Of course, there exists a long and time-honoured tradition of guitar duets.
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