close-cropped
Example Sentences
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Instead, he was “a 36-year-old unshaven woolly-headed Guardsman in wrinkled flight suit and scuffed boots” facing “a cadre of handsome, young Marine officers—the President’s elite fliers: close-cropped, fresh-shaved, immaculate in tailored flight suits, spit-shined boots.”
From Literature
She ran her hand through her close-cropped hair and looked away.
From Literature
He had the straight spine of a dancer but wore ordinary clothes and a tool belt, and his close-cropped beard was shot with gray.
From Literature
Day-Lewis, now 68 and whose last film was Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” seems carved out of stone as Ray, his close-cropped hair and imposing gray goatee suggesting a man who doesn’t just live off the grid but thrives there.
From Los Angeles Times
His salt-and-pepper hair is close-cropped like an athlete’s, “because it’s all falling out,” he laughed.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
