Oldies is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Oldies meaning
plural of oldie
Using Oldies
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of oldie
- In the example corpus, oldies often appears in combinations such as: golden oldies, the oldies, an oldies.
Context around Oldies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oldies
- In this selection, "oldies" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, golden, bringing, feature, stations, station and wake stand out and add context to how "oldies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all golden oldies and ancient golden oldies. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oldies" sits close to words such as aaryan, acrimony and akash, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oldies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Go clean the oldies panties for your upkeep. (8 words)
First friday of the month is Oldies Night. (8 words)
A station is bringing oldies back to Southern California. (9 words)
HBO's streaming service just had its best week since last summer, as viewers have sought favorites like "Big Little Lies" and "Westworld," and oldies like "Sex and the City" and "The Sopranos," said Cheryl Idell, WarnerMedia's top researcher. (40 words)
Simmons, who died over the weekend one day after his 76th birthday, is most identifiable for his outlandish aesthetics made famous in his best-selling 1988 home-workout video, Sweatin’ to the Oldies. (33 words)
The set’s peak is a twangy, roistering 1987 Royal Albert Hall concert — mixing Costello’s songs and roots-rock oldies — backed by his too cleverly named American band, the Confederates. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Oldies stations must occasionally change to more youthful music formats; as a result, the definition of what constitutes an "oldies" station has gradually changed over the years.
Leading Sony’s catalog division doesn’t always involve ancient golden oldies.
The name of this iGourmet gift basket—The Oldies But Goodies—says it all.
A station is bringing oldies back to Southern California.
Each day we oldies wake up is a good day to live.
Go clean the oldies panties for your upkeep.
He also opened exercise studios and starred exercise videos, including the wildly successful ''Sweatin' to the Oldies'' line, which became a cultural phenomenon.
He shunted aside snobbery, gaining success through daytime TV and his “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” series of home videos and DVDs.
Simmons, who died over the weekend one day after his 76th birthday, is most identifiable for his outlandish aesthetics made famous in his best-selling 1988 home-workout video, Sweatin’ to the Oldies.
The live performance will feature oldies and Motown specialist Thief of Hearts band and Yummy Hibachi is the first food truck tha will be serving at a stage event.
The set’s peak is a twangy, roistering 1987 Royal Albert Hall concert — mixing Costello’s songs and roots-rock oldies — backed by his too cleverly named American band, the Confederates.
Absolute legends Sister Sledge headline, but don't think it's all golden oldies.
First friday of the month is Oldies Night.
Golden Oldies kicked off the year on a good note as they gathered on their monthly outing on January 8 at Apple Tree in New Redruth.
HBO's streaming service just had its best week since last summer, as viewers have sought favorites like "Big Little Lies" and "Westworld," and oldies like "Sex and the City" and "The Sopranos," said Cheryl Idell, WarnerMedia's top researcher.
Here’s a selection of Rob’s chosen songs, most golden oldies, for this week.
It’s okay for the oldies – who, until this year’s bushfire conflagration, fondly imagined they wouldn’t live long enough to suffer the consequences of their selfish short-sightedness.
Normally busy weekend shows such as (RTÉ Radio 1) have gone one better and turned into actual oldies programmes, ceding the airtime to digital music station RTÉ Gold.
Oldies will remember him as Wendy Craig’s hubby in Butterflies; the stodgy 1970s man who thought his wife should be chained to her apron strings.
Tomorrow is Oldies Day with a discount for seniors.
Common combinations with oldies
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- golden oldies 9×
- the oldies 9×
- an oldies 4×
- and oldies 4×
- oldies and 3×
- oldies but 2×
- we oldies 2×
- is oldies 2×
- oldies like 2×
- oldies for 2×