grizzle

How To Use grizzle In A Sentence

• But it's a reassuring presence and it grows on you like the frown of a grizzled but kindly uncle. The Sun
• They seem like grizzled, wild-eyed children delighted with today's adventure.
• Back beyond even its immediate pre-modern period – what you might call The Andy Gray Years, the dolly bird years – football has always been a sweat-caked man-hole of a place, a realm where men have gone to mope and grizzle and rage and emote a kind of cheek-stinging eau de sexism. Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay
• Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres. History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
• A good hour before the fun's due to start and already the place is filling up with punks, teds, skins, student kids, moshers, grizzled old men in sawn-off T-shirts and a horde of beered-up lads baying for blood.
• His face came attached to a grizzled beard; a finger jabbed at the reinforced glass. STUART: A Life Backwards
• A grizzled senior bannerman had the Red Hand, a fellow with narrow eyes and more scars than Daerid who insisted on actually carrying the banner a part of each day, which few bannermen did. Lord of Chaos
• What worries me is that so many large companies appear to be run by people who would rather litigate or grizzle than innovate.
• There is always a temptation to grizzle about how bad it was under the ECA (and it was bad!)
• He developed a tearful roar which he would use when thwarted, and a persistent self-pitying grizzle when he was bored or uncomfortable. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD