old-time

Example Sentences

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You always know someone is an old time baseball coach when you see a pencil attached to an ear.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

You’ll have a grand old time with this week’s Slate News Quiz.

From Slate • May 9, 2025

I had a grand old time watching Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” at a critics’ screening before the general public got to it, which means I was mostly unspoiled by discourse.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

This girl - whose face you might have seen on a stained glass window in a church - has had a rough old time of it.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024

By time we got out in the country, we were having a high old time, whooping, talking loud, and all like that.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns