graybeard

Example Sentences

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Don’t say anything to the graybeards playing checkers.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2022

His team was guided by a group of senior military veterans known as Task Force Dunkirk, or as Saboe calls them, "the graybeards."

From Fox News • Sep. 14, 2021

Among the hardened graybeards on the insurgent side of the negotiations in Qatar is an obvious outlier, a young man of just 26, tall with gentle eyes.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2020

Now, Brady and Brees join fellow graybeards Eli Manning, Phillip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger as spectators to these playoffs, which feature the likes of greenhorns Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson and Jimmy Garoppolo.

From Washington Times • Jan. 7, 2020

It was a vest- pocket version of the inspection of Folsom by the graybeards.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann