How to Use bearded in a Sentence

bearded

adjective
  • Back to the future: Hazel hitches a ride with this big bearded guy in a van.
    Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Ten minutes passed before I was saved by the bearded man and his clipboard.
    Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Eevee arrived after Salgado heard someone was trying to find a new home for a bearded dragon.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • In it, the young man, lightly bearded and wearing a dark-red shirt, described harsh conditions in captivity.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • To Michelle, John is just a hunky, bearded, Speedo-wearing 30-year-old who's appeared out of nowhere to woo her.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Putting down my pack, I was greeted by a bearded figure in a red flannel shirt who looked like a lumberjack from a Jack London story.
    Brian Smale, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The story is narrated by a bearded man wearing oversized eyeglasses that scream 1991.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2021
  • False rumors had started years earlier, many claiming that its logo, of a bearded man in the moon facing 13 stars, was actually a symbol of the devil.
    New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • As the bearded young insurgents who led the revolution entered their 70s and 80s, a change of command became inevitable.
    Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Here are some common cute bearded dragon behaviors, as well as the biggest mistakes bearded dragon owners make with the reptiles, according to pet advocates.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The portrait showed a bearded man in traditional dress: the Kazakh poet Abai Qunanbaiuly.
    Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their main food sources are ringed and bearded seals, which also live in the Arctic.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
  • But the Santa season doesn’t end with Christmas for most of the white-bearded men.
    al, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Whales sing, toadfish hum, cod grunt, and bearded seals trill.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • Dating to the fifth century B.C.E., the sculpture fragments depict the head of a boy, a horse head and the head of a bearded man.
    Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Photos of Pärt from his school days show the bearded mystic of now to have been then something of a jock.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Do cut back the flower stalk on bearded and beardless iris as soon as the flowers fade.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2024

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