grizzle
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There’s spots of gray grizzle visible on his chin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2023
But if he must, he’ll give it more sizzle than grizzle — for you.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
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
But now as a grizzled veteran, and the oldest player on the Carolina Hurricanes’ roster, Staal has almost single-handedly willed his team to the brink of their first championship in two decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
One day their grizzled manager, Casey Stengel, said: “Can’t anyone here play this game?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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
"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
And, like a grizzled extra scurrying out of the bar just before the climactic final shootout in a grade B Hollywood Western, Bud dropped a dollar onto the table and hurriedly split.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
‘You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
“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
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