: 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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Before showing up at Arnie and Zack’s home for dinner, Sam swings by a guitar shop/arms cache run by a grizzled veteran, Bingo (played by Rat Scabies of the Damned!), and takes a few investigative steps into Jason’s murder that turn up a bullet casing from the sniper’s likely perch.
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Gallagher plays Mate – the absence of proper names gives the musical the universality of a folk song – who genially greets and gives orders to ensemble of grizzled sailor-whalers setting off for the open sea.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
The statue gives him the thick, grizzled look of a man in his mid-50s.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
This 2021 movie also stars Denzel Washington as a grizzled deputy sheriff and Rami Malek as the young detective about to get a lesson in ethically gray areas.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Gallagher plays Mate – the absence of proper names gives the musical the universality of a folk song – who genially greets and gives orders to ensemble of grizzled sailor-whalers setting off for the open sea.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
The statue gives him the thick, grizzled look of a man in his mid-50s.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
This 2021 movie also stars Denzel Washington as a grizzled deputy sheriff and Rami Malek as the young detective about to get a lesson in ethically gray areas.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Grizzled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grizzled. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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grizzled
adjective
griz·zled
ˈgriz-əld 
: sprinkled, streaked, or mixed with gray
a grizzled beard
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