How To Use grizzled 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.
- 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
- The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old. Morgan’s Run
- She plays the daughter of grizzled Peter Mullan, who swaps her and her dying mother for a stake in a gold mine.
- One man is rather grey and grizzled, with whiskers poking quite a way out of his brow.
- The parson was a little, meagre, black-looking man, with a grizzled wig that was too wide, and stood off from each ear; so that his head seemed to have shrunk away within it, like a dried filbert in its shell. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon