graybeard

Example Sentences

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It’s a conceit that pays off the second a shambolic Michael Keaton makes his entrance as a graybeard puttering about a near-derelict Wayne Manor.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2023

He isn’t the only graybeard playing at least one more season.

From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2021

He isn't the only graybeard playing at least one more season.

From Fox News • Sep. 27, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 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