grand old man
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The grand old man of Victorian letters was once a young romantic whose grief-soaked verse still dazzles and unsettles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The grand old man going out on the grandest stage of them all.
From BBC • May 12, 2024
Smith, the virtuoso shortstop, spoke by phone this month before the departure of yet another grand old man of the game.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2020
“It’s encouraging to see the grand old man of television newsmagazines as agile and spry as ‘60 Minutes’ has been in covering COVID.”
From Washington Times • May 5, 2020
Katherine wasn’t the only one working with purpose in 1963: so was the grand old man of the civil rights movement, A. Philip Randolph.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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