How to Use beard in a Sentence

beard

noun
  • He grew a beard and mustache.
  • Hot-glue the beard to the inside of the front of the hat.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Hot-glue the wooden bead onto the beard at the edge of the hat.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The driver wore a plaid shirt and a day’s growth of beard.
    Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Any man with a lot of hair and a good beard and a great voice.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 31 July 2023
  • Moshe, an olive-skinned man with a short black beard, ate in the kitchen.
    Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Dusty red shoes, the start of a beard — the guy looked familiar.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • My husband loves it for his beard, which is curly and thick.
    ELLE, 13 Feb. 2023
  • His green eyes, thick eyebrows‌ and beard could be seen through the bag’s holes, but the rest of his face was obscured.
    Rachel Connolly, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Around noon, dozens of men with matted beards and tired eyes lined up at the front.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Or it can be measured by the length of Jonny Bohne’s beard.
    Erika Solomon, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • One man stares out of the frame, blood dripping around his eyes and soaking his beard.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • The big guy with the bushy beard was as good a potential coach-in-waiting as the Buffs could’ve found in a pinch.
    Sean Keeler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The old guy, the one whose beard is increasingly gray, still has it.
    Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Snyder is both broad and trim, with the thick, dark beard that often comes with a bald head.
    David Ferry, Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The suspect was described as a white male with a beard, about six feet tall, the statement said.
    Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • All at once, the poor woman was approached by an old man with a long, white beard.
    Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
  • There was white skin and black, gray hair and brown ponytails, eye liner and beards.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Back in 2016, Odell Jr. challenged his dad to a contest to see who could grow the longest beard.
    Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Two young men with short beards, one red and one black, huddled by a wattle.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • When his driver, an older man with a big white beard, pulled up in a red F-150, the Dirty Jobs host got in the front seat.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Jesus sports a halo and a beard, and his eyes are closed, in contrast to the open eyes of the disciples.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Trimming your beard can also help keep flakes and oil from building up in the whiskers.
    Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Wide Shut masks that, of course, left mouths and pointed, Viking-style beards (too many of these to count) well exposed.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
  • There are dark bags under his eyes and specks of gray in his long beard and thinning brown hair.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The suspect had a beard and mustache, wore a yellow hoodie and jeans.
    cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Rajamouli is forty-nine years old, with a swoop of salt-and-pepper curls and a thick beard in a matching shade.
    Simon Abrams, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Rail-thin and with a bushy beard, Yonatan is a social worker who tends to Tel Aviv’s homeless.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • At least five people — but likely more — have dyed their beards blue.
    Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Stern is seventy-one, with a scruffy white beard and a taste for casual attire.
    Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024

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