graybeard
Example Sentences
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Allen will be the graybeard of a Chargers receivers group that has several promising pass-catchers.
From Los Angeles Times
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
They might be a reality again as he keeps scoring into his graybeard years.
From Washington Post
Sixteen years into the experiment, Twitter is a graybeard by internet years and by corporate standards.
From Los Angeles Times
After that, he became a Washington “graybeard,” a think-tanker on weapons proliferation to whom the intelligence community would occasionally turn to help figure out what the United States’ enemies were up to.
From Washington Post
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