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grizzle

[griz-uhl] / ˈgrɪz əl /


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There’s spots of gray grizzle visible on his chin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2023

Aside from his charismatic grizzle, the role was educational.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2017

With “Hands of Stone,” Robert De Niro officially enters his Burgess Meredith-in-“Rocky” phase, bringing the ringside grizzle and rumpled gravitas by the pound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2016

Like a middle-aged heartthrob, Koko has a graceful grey grizzle around the mouth now, and Woss says his leading man will not take on any more films.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2012

I remember running with her towards the fence, the baby starting to wake and to grizzle a little.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

She brings a change in tone compared with her grizzled predecessors, like Leo Gerard, the union’s longest-serving president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

In one scene, a Minion plays a detective character named “Humphrey,” a nod to Humphrey Bogart, grizzled hero of “The Big Sleep” and “The Maltese Falcon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Jacob Elordi, off of an Oscar nomination, is the most obvious ‘Euphoria’ bait, and I hope voters give grizzled veteran Sam Elliott his due for a memorable ‘Landman’ arc.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Matt Roush says, “I hope voters give grizzled veteran Sam Elliott his due for a memorable ‘Landman’ arc.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Brown Ben, white-haired, grizzled, tough as old leather.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

No matter that the Aberdonian shot a final-day 67 when the rest of the field were moaning and grizzling like bairns about the long grass.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2012

Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Call it grumbling, griping, grizzling, grouching – take your pick.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012

Urbane, well-built, his face framed with grizzling hair, he is famed for two characteristics-his impeccable courtesy, his freedom from mannerism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then my three younger brothers set up their own grizzling chorus about how unfair it was that they didn’t get paid for anything.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

The chorus of grizzling was so loud and long that I was surprised she didn’t relent and go back on her plan.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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