grizzle
Example Sentences
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His run-haul set him on the way to being one of the great leaders of the modern era, but he already looked a grizzled leader when taking the reins at 22.
From BBC
The older version of , now the grizzled Diamond burnt out by tour life and desperate not to duplicate the mistakes he made in his first two marriages, is played by Robert Westenberg.
From Los Angeles Times
"It's unfair to lift censorship suddenly," growls a grizzled newspaper editor into the phone, a copy of The Daily Pulp sprawled across his desk.
From BBC
But at No Kings in Louisville, instead of white flags of surrender, I saw a grizzled Army Ranger holding a sign that read “Veteran Supporting the Constitution.”
From Salon
On the same March 3 morning, the county asked for help identifying a wisp-thin elderly man with a grizzled beard and swollen black eye who’d been found in Monterey Park’s Edison Trails Park.
From Los Angeles Times
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