: sprinkled or streaked with gray : graying
a grizzled beard
also
: having gray hair
a grizzled veteran
Examples of grizzled in a Sentence
He had thinning hair and a grizzled beard.
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Lukas did not grow up on some farm in Kentucky, mucking stables as a teenager and rubbing elbows all day, every day, with grizzled horsemen.
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Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024
Seeing his grizzled colleagues become desensitized to the city’s problems, Ollie is trying to cling to his desire to help — but is that naïve?
—Emily Maskell, Vulture, 3 June 2024
First, Miller replaced Mel Gibson with Tom Hardy in the role of Max, the grizzled cop who lost his family at the beginning of the apocalypse.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 24 May 2024
The heroes, in this case, include the grizzled war photographer Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst); an aspiring photojournalist, Jessie Cullen (Cailee Spaeny); as well as journalists played by Wagner Moura and Stephen McKinley Henderson.
—Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
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Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024
Seeing his grizzled colleagues become desensitized to the city’s problems, Ollie is trying to cling to his desire to help — but is that naïve?
—Emily Maskell, Vulture, 3 June 2024
First, Miller replaced Mel Gibson with Tom Hardy in the role of Max, the grizzled cop who lost his family at the beginning of the apocalypse.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 24 May 2024
The heroes, in this case, include the grizzled war photographer Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst); an aspiring photojournalist, Jessie Cullen (Cailee Spaeny); as well as journalists played by Wagner Moura and Stephen McKinley Henderson.
—Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
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“Grizzled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grizzled. Accessed 18 Jun. 2024.
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grizzled
adjective
griz·zled
ˈgriz-əld 
: sprinkled, streaked, or mixed with gray
a grizzled beard
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