How to Use balding in a Sentence

balding

adjective
  • He wore a hat to cover his balding head.
  • A lot of you — even some of the balding ones — weren’t even born.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The suspect is described as a balding man with a short mustache and beard.
    — Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Some are good-looking, some are fat, some are bald or balding, some look like grandmas, some are young.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • His father was treading water a few feet away, thin hair plastered to his balding head.
    — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • When mom steps aside one night, there’s a balding middle-aged man in the audience paying close attention.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • This can lead to a noticeable improvement in hair density in balding areas.
    — Wyles Daniel, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Eilish dressed as a baby with big eyelashes and a pink bonnet, while Rutherford showed off a balding head of gray hair and an old man outfit.
    — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Notably, Cage was seen in a short beard and rectangular-lens glasses, his usual head of dark hair replaced with a partly balding style.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
  • An early clue comes just before Nick and Honey’s arrival, when George makes a balding joke that stops Martha in her tracks.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 May 2022
  • On balding and facial hair For anyone starting testosterone, balding can be a major source of apprehension.
    — Quispe López, Them., 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Not to cast about for trends, but what do the movies of 2023 have against balding, flatulent, socially awkward teachers named Paul?
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Pisal was a spry, fatherly officer in his mid-fifties who frequently used his unassuming look as a balding middle-aged dad to take on undercover assignments.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
  • For decades, thousands of ordinary people who found themselves in these circumstances called upon the help of a balding, bespectacled man from Cambridge.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • International superstar Tom Cruise took a career detour to play foul-mouthed, balding studio exec Les Grossman.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • 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 balding, bookish 60-year-old was already one of the world’s most influential and prolific inventors, forging text-to-speech software, music synthesizers, and scanning machines.
    — David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023

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