How to Use bearded in a Sentence

bearded

adjective
  • Justin Kelley, who is large and bearded, led Greene to the front of the small crowd.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Giant photos of tattooed and bearded hipsters cover its walls.
    The Economist, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Yes, the dump attendant, a heavily bearded man named Jody, carries a firearm.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Not very long ago the only way to distinguish the justices, at least in appearance, was to separate the bearded from the close-shaven.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Young women came in droves to pose for selfies in sundresses; bearded men in sunglasses would snap shots of their faces poking cheekily out of the crops.
    Clive Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2020
  • This is Lizardo, a bearded lizard who lives in Berea with owner Erika Smeader.
    cleveland, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The orange-bearded veteran had assumed his usual post for Game 6, batting third and playing third.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
  • In his seven years as a Dodger, the red-bearded Turner has become everybody’s favorite hometown kid.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • But the current wave of finger-wagging fact-checkers lack their predecessor’s bearded gravitas and showman’s panache.
    Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
  • This was the seventh season with the Dodgers, who won their first title since 1988, and the red-haired, bearded third baseman was a key component.
    Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Ten of 13 ill people reported contact with a bearded dragon, according to the CDC.
    Allen Kim, CNN, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Another meme showed Trump’s quote alongside an image of bearded men carrying American flags and appearing to prepare for a fight.
    Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The staff has been scrambling to find homes for a ferret named Stitch, two tarantulas, fish, a turtle, a guinea pig, snails, hissing cockroaches and a bearded dragon named Lola.
    al, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Nearby, two barefoot Jackson sculptures of prodigiously bearded good ol’ boys are laid out horizontally on the gallery floor, seemingly embalmed in time and space.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The others are from the head of a boy and the head of a bearded male.
    Reuters, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The old, bearded man in front of me kneeled and kissed the Afghan earth.
    Lina Abirafeh, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • One costume stumps the room: The Dude, i.e., a bearded dad in a bathrobe.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The long-bearded bassist for the Texas blues rock trio ZZ Top.
    Bernard McGhee, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Next to a Star Wars group was a red, white, and blue booth and a bearded man in a suit.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • Left to right: an intaglio of Jupiter; a cameo of a dog; a cameo of a bearded man.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • But that [second-to-last] scene with the bearded guy, that was not me.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2022
  • One of the fragments depicts the head of a boy, another the head of a horse, and the third the head of a bearded man.
    Elinda Labropoulou, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Across the room stands a man — tall, bearded, fully dressed.
    Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • He’s got a boxy, bearded face, a sharp nose, and wears glasses.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Back to the future: Hazel hitches a ride with this big bearded guy in a van.
    Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The doors opened at the next stop, and a man about my age (mid-30s), leathery-faced and wiry-bearded, stumbled in.
    Michael P.h. Stanley, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2021
  • His legs were wrapped tightly around the goat-bearded man, who was whistling through his nose.
    Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • On the sidewalk a bearded man stood rooted, staring up at the sun.
    Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Young, bearded, brash, and fluent in memes, 39-year-old Bukele always had the physique du role to cater to the laser-eye brigade.
    Wired, 30 June 2021
  • Others have seen an apparition of a bearded man who looks like the crew member.
    Julie Jordan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024

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