old soldier
Britishnoun
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a former soldier or veteran
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an experienced or practised person
Example Sentences
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One evening in the autumn of 1903, an old soldier strolling a Sawtelle street heard someone say the name “Russell.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024
Another, she remarked, had “the cynical expression of an old soldier who has been through many battles, but his eyes are kind.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2019
Anthony Hopkins’s embattled old soldier, Titus, and Alan Cumming’s high-camp Saturninus both command attention, but Taymor deserves full credit for making the experience both horrible and appallingly funny.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2019
And since in a symbolic debate of this kind nothing is better than an old soldier, the retired Marine general and current chief of staff, John Kelly, was trotted out in an Oct.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2018
It was the old soldier who finally reacted.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
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