How To Use Wizened In A Sentence
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These wizened men, who have seen more of life than I wish to imagine, become silent guardians.
Ben Colclough: Walking on top of the world
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She complained of a headache, and she looked old and wizened.
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Lachlan didna ken what father meant, and the heart wes wizened in the breist o 'him wi' pride an 'diveenity.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
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When you turn on your TV, you may see a wizened old man making plebs laugh with his bad wigs and big chin, but we see someone else entirely.
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Now wizened, and hopefully wiser too, he still is not able to leave an impression on anybody except two real nincompoops in the film.
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His wizened features were very even and his grey hair so abundantly thick and wavy as to make him look almost top-heavy.
THE MARSHAL AND THE MURDERER
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A wizened man in white shirt and white tucked-up dhoti, with a dark green headcloth, put thatch on the roof of the beachside pavilion.
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The wizened old men are bracing themselves for the coming conflict.
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She props up her skeletal frame, wizened beyond her 48 years, with spindly arms wrapped around a twisted cane.
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In the centre was a small wizened bulb like a tiny onion.
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In the centre was a small wizened bulb like a tiny onion.
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Portray the wizened and wise Jedi master with a Yoda rubber mask or Obi-Wan Kenobi outfit.
Maul Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Several portraits feature beautiful faces, some with deeply lined, wizened countenances.
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From the first it appeared obvious to all that the dementedness which characterised the little wizened yellow-faced woman was of a much more pronounced type than Con the Quare One's.
Strangers at Lisconnel
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The day begins as a wizened man a bench in front of his house.
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So at least he's got the wizened old cheesy-toenailed hippy vote sewn up.
SLACKERJACK – Obama Vs Fly
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The wizened old man in the Cadillac smiled and waved benignly, said goodbye to Bob, and drove off.
Binky Philips: How About a Spin Around Daytona Speedway, Hoss?
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a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair
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A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, and by peering, querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages.
The Red One
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A monk gazes upward through a dark chapel towards a shining stained-glass triptych; a nun gazes across a black expanse at a candle flame; wizened, benevolent countenances are upturned, and the light of faith shines down upon them.
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He was a man above middle-age, with a sharp and wizened face, and he held his head canted so that he seemed to be ear-first as he faced you.
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I asked the wizened servant but she made no reply, merely advancing into the room whilst she fixed my face with her dark, inexpressive eyes.
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My favourite character was Lars' dad - a small, wizened Danish man who carried a knobbly walking stick and repeatedly stroked his long, white beard.
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The dominie was a wizened-looking little man, with sharp eyes that pierced you when they thought they were unobserved, and if any visitor drew near who might be a member of the Board, he disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole.
Auld Licht Idylls
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The first time I saw Wiwin, she looked like a wizened old woman, with wrinkly, hairy skin and big, unblinking eyes.
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What about all those generations of wizened peasants treading the grapes and passing on their age-old knowledge of the terroir?
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Several portraits feature beautiful faces, some with deeply lined, wizened countenances.
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In the early morning light he'd step outside for a breath of air, paying no more attention to his needs than a dust mite, the colors of his canvas smeared across wizened, alabaster cheeks.
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Often she would turn her back upon that wizened atomy of quirks and false ideals, and let her bosom pant to think to-night!
Doom Castle
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A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages.
THE RED ONE
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Once the client has successfully relieved her- or himself of this burden, the office manager goes in for the kill usually a thick layer of sugary rebuke only a wizened mother of three can muster: "Now let's start over without all the foul language so I can properly understand you.
Vet's view: Please don't shriek at the office
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He is a wizened old nondescript with satyr-like beard, a kind of Thersites, who is understood to have established, from the days of Abdelkader and "for certain reasons," his headquarters at Gafsa, where he sips absinthes past all computation, exercising his wit upon everybody and everything with a fluent and rather diverting pessimism.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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In a flash of light, Aidan shriveled to a wizened old man of about 3 feet tall.
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We've just reached the summit of Pendle Hill in Lancashire when the image of the three wizened witches from Macbeth skips across my mind's eye.
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Sulla's shriek of horror ripped out of him as he leaped back and straightened; the skyphos emptied as it fell from his nerveless hand, and the wizened, stringy Grass Crown tumbled off his head to lie amid the blood.
Fortune's Favorites
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In the centre of the room sit two small, wizened figures, playing chess with unusual wooden pieces.
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There is a mystery lurking in Julie's past, a dead body in the pool house, a wizened dwarf all dressed in black: omens, premonitions, suspicions that things are not what they seem.
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My veins, wizened from chemo, are the bane of phlebotomists across the country who poke at me with frustrated abandon; immobilization made sleep impossible, even if they hadn't woken me at regular intervals to measure what are peppily termed "your vitals;" at least the scar on my head was ready -- they could go in through the same incision as seven years before.
Rabbi David Wolpe: Really, Again?
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They're limp an 'wizened 'long to the fust of the spring.
In Dark New England Days
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Cory introduced himself to the first person he spied, a wizened old woman on a stool at the door, meticulously cutting thin strips of leather.
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If The West Wing (also a John Wells-executive produced series like ER) was the fantasy of the workplace as perfect gemeinschaft full of Algonquin roundtable-ready wits and Nobel-level brains, and The Office is Studs Terkel's Working re-imagined as a comedy, ER is the only show that captures the fluid nature of office politics, the way today's annoyingly ambitious intern can become tomorrow's wizened elder statesman.
10.4 Million 'ER' Fans Can't Be Wrong: A Longtime Fan's Notes on a Beloved Show
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I spent many a sunny afternoon in the smoky darkness of a pool hail in a small central Illinois town where wizened men took my pennies at euchre, gin rummy and poker.
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The wizened grandma in the corner strikes up a geisha love song on her samisen.
Ukiyo
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His wizened features were very even and his grey hair so abundantly thick and wavy as to make him look almost top-heavy.
THE MARSHAL AND THE MURDERER
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If you go to the harbour, there are wizened old ladies selling beautiful hand-made lace and tablecloths for a fraction of what they'd cost back home.
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She complained of headache, and she looked old and wizened.
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You might want to investigate the difference between 'wizened' and 'wise'.
The Guardian World News
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He is two years old but his face is that of a wizened old man, his hair sparse and patched.
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His wizened and wrinkled face and his long, flowing beard contrasted sharply with the aura of power that seemed to flow from him.
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He was in the presence of the Great Lady who was at once, an unblemished virgin, a pregnant mother and a wizened crone.
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He was better pleased with the rounded amplitudes of the Danae and the Venuses painted for him by Titian, than by El Greco's wizened male nudes the colour of fog.
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There is much admiring of young legal eagles, studying of wizened magistrates and cowering from unrepentant defendants to be done.
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He rapped on the door once, and it opened to reveal a wizened old woman carrying a cord with knots in it.
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Hobbling on a broomstick, with, no doubt, the same weird, wizened face as now, an innate sense of the fitness of things must have suggested the kerchief tied around her big head, and the burlaps rag of an apron in front of her linsey-woolsey rag of a gown, and the bit of broken pipe-stem in the corner of her mouth, where the pipe should have been, and where it was in after years.
Balcony Stories
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Mr. Edwards appeared to be some type of shrew, but a wizened, shrunken shell of one.
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Despite her good deeds, this wizened enchantress's sinister duality surfaces when she senses the threat of a changeling among the Quinn clan.
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She returned later that day in the back of a police car to find two very grey old people, now wizened and wrinkly after the experience.
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The wizened doctor slowly pressed three fingers against the artery in my wrist.
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Every so often, in between weathercasts predicting temperatures in the 90s, they wheel out this wizened old bird.
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Deil a fear," said Meg; "it was auld Sim o 'Glower-ower-'em, the wizened auld hurcheon [hedgehog], that set a big thruch stane ower his first wife; and when he buried his second in the neist grave, he just turned the broad flat stone.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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The first time I saw Wiwin, she looked like a wizened old woman, with wrinkly, hairy skin and big, unblinking eyes.
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darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face
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His unabashed Eurocentrism would gladden George Will's wizened heart, but he hasn't yet outed himself as a flaming Italophile.
Boing Boing
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His countenance was as bleak as the frozen northern wastelands, and he huddled within himself, a wizened husk hoarding unspoken power.
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Girlfight surrounds her with familiar fight-movie elements: the decrepit gym, decorated with hortatory slogans; the wizened coach with his own agenda of disappointments.
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And then there was that tiny form in her arms, its face wizened, troubled, frowning.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The ancient waiting-woman bows her head in awe, and a flicker of unfamiliar happiness crosses the deeply wizened depths of her face.
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The mother of all women had to be a cat, a little, wizened, sad-faced, shrewd ring-tailed cat.
CHAPTER X
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You can almost see him as a wizened woman, too arthritic to stand over a pot with a spoon, but quite capable of directing from a chair in the corner.
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I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering old man.
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Drained of all blood, his small face resembled a wizened pomelo, blanched lips splayed against his tobacco-stained teeth.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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No longer the bendy punk-rappers of yesteryear, slightly wizened where they were once wiry, not even these boys can hide from adulthood any more.
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He is a short man in a gray suit who manages to look both baby-faced and wizened at the same time.
Johann Hari: Promoting Anorexia: An Interview With Kenneth Tong. This Was No Hoax
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But the figure was hunched, and wizened, and coming with slow, shuffling steps.
NIGHT SISTERS
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In my view, however, the wizened polymath did well.
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Ray Caesar creates fantastical, grimly hopeful and gravely whimsical images of wizened children who radiate an enigmatic serenity.
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Increasingly, it's not just the wizened erasing life's battle scars, but the under 30 on a quest for subtle enhancement -- and unlike the Upper East Side denizens whispering in hushed voices about a recent "procedure," they're not afraid to Twitter about it.
Adrien Field: Beauty Is in the Wallet of the Beholder
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The wizened old man sat in his plush office, blueprints spread out on top of the bureau.
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And we threw out the governor and replaced him with this kind of wizened homunculus who used to play robots.
Chris Kelly: David Vitter Has a New Fetish
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The dominie was a wizened-looking little man, with sharp eyes that pierced you when they thought they were unobserved, and if any visitor drew near who might be a member of the board, he disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole.
Auld Licht Idyls
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Gnarled and wizened but full of life, they light every page on which they appear.
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Kudos to Mike Diehl, Edward Palumbo, et al. Why, has it not been on This Great Blog Itself that hunters have often been criticized (just recently, a wizened old codger related how he and a companion sagaciously enjoyed the wild countryside while riding behind two unwitting computer-geek-hunters … and so on and so forth)?
See Us in the Funny Pages
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Simple: take your trainers off, wind your arm up, and get hoying your ‘shoe’ - the pleasing alternative to the game played by all those wizened, pipe-smoking Frenchmen.
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Sullen youths smoking clove cigarettes, wizened old ladies hunched over baskets of shallots, krupuk sellers, batik-clad matrons shopping for fish, the occasional leathery homeless man brandishing a tin begging cup.
Laura Silverman: Nose-to-Tail Eating in Indonesia
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The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects.
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Asked about the move, his slow smile widens into a broad grin that crinkles the sun-wizened features of his face.
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He was a wizened old man with yellow skin and deep wrinkles.
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The old woman grinned back at Leia, her expression wizened by years.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye
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A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages.
THE RED ONE
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At one point during the annual sales powwow at a San Francisco convention center in August, a wizened Chambers came out from behind the podium to be closer to the 10,000 salespeople.
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The only nod to the empire is a statue of wizened little Yoda presiding over a fountain right outside the visitor's entrance.
Boing Boing: July 3, 2005 - July 9, 2005 Archives
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In Bali, her final destination, she planned to devote herself to prayer, studying under a wizened medicine man named Ketut.
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His wrinkles overlapped his pox scars, giving him a wizened wizard look.