Sentence examples for if not the oldest from inspiring English sources

It is one of the oldest police unions, if not the oldest.

Recent studies on animal genomes indicate that sponges are among the oldest lineages of living animals — if not the oldest.

"This is one of the oldest, if not the oldest business on City Island that's still in the original family," DeCuffa said.

Their average age is about 33, one of the oldest groups of elite women, if not the oldest, in the history of the race, organizers said.

In the end, what seems clear is that throughout Syria, and in the outskirts of the capital, one of the world's oldest — if not the oldest — continuously inhabited cities, a terrible bloodletting is going on.

Julius' makes a strong claim to be one of the longest-running gay bars in the city, if not the oldest, and it is housed in an 1826 building at the corner of West 10th Street and Waverly Place.

John Edwards, the favourite of the Democratic right, could deliver North Carolina and Tennessee to the Democrats, if not the old core Confederacy.

She runs again today in the Tattersalls Millions Sales Stakes (2.30 Newmarket), which offers instant reward, if not the old-money prestige of Pattern races.

If not, the old tree is retained.

The latter is buying into the oldest if not the first marketing tactic in golf's long history, the machismo quest for more distance off the tee.

Nonetheless, the best places to look are at older luncheonettes like El Sitio in Woodside, Queens Havanaa Chelsea in Chelsea; and National Cafe in the East Village, which radiate the atmosphere of, if not old Havana, old Calle Ocho, the center of Cuban culture in Miami.