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grizzle

[griz-uhl] / ˈgrɪz əl /


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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

“Then we went to the far north side of Chicago to a Lithuanian neighborhood to play some grizzled old guys upstairs at the top of an old, smoky bar. They creamed us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

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

He had a grizzled, broad-browed head with iron-gray tufts over his eyes and a blunt and belligerent jaw.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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




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