The picture was an oldish one, in a blackened old frame.
He crouched in his chair, a wizened, frightened, unhappy, oldish man.
I sat finishing my luncheon, till the features were revealed to me of a fat oldish man, blowing like a grampus, his cap well on the back of a bald head, and his trousers tied about the shins with string.
He was an oldish man, with a short, square figure, and a woollen comforter enveloped his throat.
I saw that the bearer was a woman, an oldish woman, round-shouldered like most French peasants.
One was an oldish man, the other was a tall, active lad; either would give me considerable difficulty to manage if it came to a hand-to-hand struggle.
Just then, anoldish man with only two stout sons and a small family drove into the forest with a light wagon and a strong team of horses, to look about him, as he said, for a location.
They were oldish men perhaps 50 years old, one a Mr. Fish of Indiana and another named Gould.
When about two weeks of my time had expired two oldish men came to the house to stop for a few days and reported themselves as from Sacramento, buying up some horses for that market.
The room was occupied by an oldish man and a girl, addressing themselves to the day's work of plain bookbinding.
It was mostly composed of oldish men not fit for active service.
And he was a oldish man, too: sixty, I dessay he was.
In the straw lay three oldish men, fully clad in the dark-blue uniform which in old times had signaled the Engineer Corps; one dozed with his head on his arm, the other two were stretched out flat in the mysterious grossness of sleep.
A thin oldish man with a face full of hollows like that of an old horse, answered "Oui," faintly.
There were those, oldish men and slightly less oldish women, who called her flippant.
He added "sir" this time because Lord Ramelton is an oldish man, and Willie Thornton had been well brought up and taught by his mother that some respect is due to age.
An oldish man, very fat, but healthy looking and strong, sat in an armchair near the window of the room they entered.
The men were reservists, oldish and quiet, doing no harm and living decently.
Here they were not treated badly, the garrison consisting of oldish men, reservists, with little stomach for the atrocities that followed in the wake of the first army.
He saw oldish men looking horribly young in their animal excitement, andoldish women looking horrible in their coquettishness.
Three oldish men were there, whom people called Johnson, Newberry, and Pawkins; they were all the summoned jurors who had responded.
An oldish man of portly figure, who looked like a sea captain, was steering.
That oldish gentlewoman, who was taking upon her to send my Niece Granville before the justice!
Don't play them tricks on me, lass; I'm getting an oldish man.
As he had said, plaintively, he was an oldish man.
You had nearly made the oldish lady believe the good ship 'Royal Caroline' was the flying Dutchman!
True, you must have officers on board; though, I suppose, they are a little oldish to be agreeable to you.
There were not many oldishmen among them, only one with grey hair.
The party consisted of an oldish man, a very smart and good-looking young fellow, and a handsome little boy.
There is a saying in the Scripture which runs--so far as the memory of an oldish man can carry the words--Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.
His dress is that of a country-town titan of business: that is, an oldish shooting suit, and elastic sided boots quite unconnected with shooting.
He looked in on Frank in the middle of his dressing, found to his relief that an oldish suit of dress-clothes fitted him quite decently, and then went to put on his own.
Balthasar, who knew a water-rat or two, gambolled in front, at the gait which marks an oldish dog who takes the same walk every day.
The guarding of the prisoners is effected by plenty of barbed wire and a comparatively small number of oldish Landsturmers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oldish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
