stubbly
Example Sentences
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He watched the man’s stubbly, oversized face peer at his phone.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
But Ormyrus labotus, it seemed, had no problem penetrating an assortment of galls: lime-green and polka-dot round galls, spiky yellow galls on the blade of a leaf and stubbly galls on a twig.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
“Shorn” juxtaposes a stubbly pate of them with long, tangled tresses of wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
A Sheriff’s Department photo taken with a crew member showed Null dirty and with a stubbly beard but smiling broadly.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2021
Repeated indefinitely, as though by a train of mirrors, two faces, one a hairless and freckled moon haloed in orange, the other a thin, beaked bird-mask, stubbly with two days’ beard, turned angrily towards him.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
