grizzle
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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
“Yes, got a nice beard. It’s turning white fast, beginning to grizzle up.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
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
"As a crime viewer, I've had enough of troubled, grizzled detectives in the wilderness battling their demons," he said.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
When Knueppel was just 14 years old, he was thrown into a league of grizzled clock-punchers, retirees and guys reliving their college glory days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
A few hours later another pirogue came by, this one with an old man inside, a tuft of grizzled white hair on his head like a dollop of cream.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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
“I was bouncing her up and down and she was still grizzling, so I walked outside with her.”
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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
