old-time
adjective
1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of an earlier period
old-time songs
2
: of long standing
old-time residents
Examples of old-time in a Sentence
an old-time song that took the long-married couple back to when they were first dating
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Wait a second, the retort goes, the old-time adage is that to the victor go the spoils.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Now, the University Pub is closed as of May 18, and that leaves only one old-time dive bar near TCU: the Poop Deck.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2025
Listen to old-time music, celebrate the Man of Steel, dig for dinosaur bones, hunt for Easter eggs or save lives by giving blood.
—John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2025
This is a vast overturning of the old-time natural language processing (NLP) that used to be stilted and awkward to use, which has been shifted into a new version of NLP fluency of an at times startling or amazing caliber.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Now, the University Pub is closed as of May 18, and that leaves only one old-time dive bar near TCU: the Poop Deck.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2025
Listen to old-time music, celebrate the Man of Steel, dig for dinosaur bones, hunt for Easter eggs or save lives by giving blood.
—John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2025
This is a vast overturning of the old-time natural language processing (NLP) that used to be stilted and awkward to use, which has been shifted into a new version of NLP fluency of an at times startling or amazing caliber.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Old-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old-time. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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