graybeard

Example Sentences

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He isn't the only graybeard playing at least one more season, though Chara won the Stanley Cup.

From Fox News • Sep. 27, 2021

The Stars also have talent up front in captain Jamie Benn, center Tyler Seguin and graybeard Joe Pavelski to matchup up with the Golden Knights’ talented forwards led by Mark Stone.

From Washington Times • Sep. 5, 2020

As the resident graybeard, he didn’t mind giving reporters some light trash talk.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2019

In Jakarta, a graybeard captain, speaking to me on the condition of anonymity, described the attitude of the new owners toward their pilots.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2019

There was that tone in his voice, that marvelous warmth, that made them all look not at Heth but at Lee, the graybeard, the dark-eyed, the old man, the fighter.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara