How to Use grizzled in a Sentence

grizzled

adjective
  • He had thinning hair and a grizzled beard.
  • His friend, a grizzled man of about the same age, stands watch at the door.
    — Sulome Anderson, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Bridges plays the grizzled Texas Ranger who’s on their trail.
    — Ed Stockly, latimes.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • There are the grizzled reporters who have been doing this for decades.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The statue gives him the thick, grizzled look of a man in his mid-50s.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Where were the grizzled dismissals, the harsh sarcasm, the snark?
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 17 July 2017
  • Boone even had the grizzled manager on his podcast a few months back.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • Kramer is like a grizzled sheriff who has come to exorcise your demons.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In late summer and fall, her fur becomes grizzled and light brown in color.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Some are grizzled veterans in the postseason with a ring or two to show for it.
    — Jack McKessy, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Eric is boyish but gray and grizzled, far older than his father was at the time of his death.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The sauce was an instant hit with the veterans who served as his grizzled daily taste-testers.
    — John Tuohy, IndyStar, 11 July 2025
  • Even eggs still warm from the hen’s body peeled just as easily as the most grizzled specimen.
    — J. Kenji López-Alt, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2019
  • But this summer, as if from a cave, a more grizzled Ricky suddenly emerged.
    — Matthew Waxman, GQ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The weather may have a say in the game, but the team is a rain or shine mix of raw talent and grizzled veterans.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • Sergey, who is approaching 70, is a bearish man with long grizzled hair and a bushy beard.
    — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
  • Ask him about that award, however, and his response is that of a grizzled veteran.
    — Miami Herald, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Two-minute drives aren’t easy even for grizzled veterans playing in their own stadium.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And then there was Miller, by that time a grizzled veteran who had grown accustomed to turnover and change.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2018
  • One of Costner’s finest performances as the grizzled vet behind the plate.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 8 Apr. 2023
  • His cheeks were hollow, and a grizzled beard, which hadn’t seen a proper shave in weeks, made his face look older and all the more haggard.
    — Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The Virgin isles are a place of stiff rums rather than grizzled whale meats in the frosty expanse of Greenland.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
  • All of that built up to his fight against Dunn, a grizzled veteran with 23 pro fights under his belt.
    — Robert Rimpson, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2019
  • Stamp retained his looks as the years ticked by, his natural handsomeness hardened by a more grizzled look.
    — Pan Pylas, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Grizzled and wry, he looks beaten down in the role, limping and drinking, and eking out his days as a limousine driver.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • This Robin is a grizzled marauder who can’t even remember how many people he’s killed.
    — ABC News, 17 June 2026
  • Turner is a man of few words, the sort of grizzled, stoic mountain man that prefers a horse to a truck, and animals to people.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Sheridan is playing a first-year medic who hits the streets driving an ambulance with a grizzled vet, played by Penn.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The Stars’ skaters are a hodgepodge of grizzled veterans and up-and-coming youngsters.
    — Carol Schram, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • But even the most grizzled promoters leave 2021 with some cause for optimism for next year.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021

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