stubble

Example Sentences

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The 54-year-old comedian with a beard full of gray stubble drops back to pass, launching a tight spiral underneath SoFi’s massive technicolor halo scoreboard hovering above a sea of empty stands.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

Years of efforts to tackle the problem, including work-from-home policies and rules on crop stubble burning, have done little to alleviate the issue.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

Silver pearls glisten on the men’s foreheads and their eyes are sunken deep in their pale faces, framed in a stubble of beard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Crusius, 21 years old, with wavy dark brown hair, sparse stubble collecting on his round chin, was awkward and introverted.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024

The gardens were all brown stalks and stubble and fallen leaves by now, and so was this one, except for one viny upshoot of green and red.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli