How to Use balding in a Sentence

balding

adjective

• He wore a hat to cover his balding head.
• The suspect is described as a balding man with a short mustache and beard.
  — Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2017
• Thanks to advances in medical science, the virile, balding type may soon go the way of the dodo bird.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2004
• The makeup has come off, their hair is now gray and balding, their six-pack has turned into a beer gut, and their face is pockmarked with pimples.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
• His father was treading water a few feet away, thin hair plastered to his balding head.
  — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• Me, a regular, plain, balding engineer at a lab, a chemist.
  — Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 31 July 2019
• Misha is a character — lanky and balding, blind in his right eye, with serious scars across his forehead.
  — Carl Fincke, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
• Other warning signs that Kahmila looks for are short or broken hairs right around a balding area and small bumps and blisters on the scalp.
  — Nykia Spradley, SELF, 29 Jan. 2018
• The young, lean man of Katie's earliest memories was now brawny and balding, with the macho, wary gait of an ex-prisoner.
  — Maurice Chammah, Esquire, 22 May 2017
• The 85-year-old is recognizable in mug form because of the bespectacled face and balding crown.
  — Kate Sierzputowski, Chicago Reader, 26 Feb. 2018
• Boudin is slim and balding, with pale skin, a thin brown beard, and an intent, intellectual manner.
  — The New Yorker, 29 July 2021
• Unlike most balding men, his hair does not taper into thinness, which makes the effect all the more unnerving.
  — Jackson McHenry, The Cut, 27 Oct. 2017
• My balding dad, his pink parka cinched with a magnetic belt, gamely took us there after homework to night-ski under the spooky lights.
  — Dale Hrabi, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• The conservation park has a budget less than 5% of the palace’s, and the effects of low rainfall and record heat were evident in the balding canopies and shriveling Patagonia trees.
  — Helene Fouquet and William Wilkes / Bloomberg, Time, 21 Sep. 2019
• Long, 59, bespectacled and balding, listened to the single charge from inside a courtroom’s holding cell as a row of Roberts’ friends watched anxiously from the gallery, several leaning on the seats in front of them, hands clasped.
  — Darrell Smith, sacbee, 10 Jan. 2018
• The 31-year-old actor was spotted on the set of his new film Honey Boy looking completely unrecognizable with long hair extensions and a balding cap.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 31 May 2018
• Pigeons dig claws into his balding head in several photos.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2018
• The 31-year-old actor was recently spotted on the set of the new film looking completely unrecognizable with long hair extensions and a balding cap.
  — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 11 June 2018
• In media interviews, the 83-year-old, with a balding head and his remaining hair in a solid white Afro, appeared content with his situation and optimistic about the future.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• The police report described the man as bald or balding, but did not include any other identifying information.
  — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2018
• Police published photos showing a balding man, described as about 40-45 years old, making various grimaces toward the camera.
  — Fox News, 26 Mar. 2018

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