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
A burly bearded man in a blue tunic moved swiftly through grassy stubble on a windswept road in rural Damascus, collecting bones with his bare hands.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025
What little stubble he’d had the last time she’d seen him was gone; he was clean-shaven and wore a Son of the Six’s telltale blue tunic.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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