How to Use hale in a Sentence

hale

adjective
  • The doctor was a large, hale man, with a coxcomb of thinning red hair.
    — Adam O’Fallon Price, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Each spacious hale functions like a standalone spa rather than a run-of-the-mill treatment room.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • As the weeks drag on, the hale clarity of my normal self is receding.
    — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Hoping to contrast the white with a blue like hale navy above the chair rail in the dining area and on the kitchen island.
    — The Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Like Hockney himself, hale and fruitful at the age of eighty-one, the film has weathered well.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • Greater transparency may encourage the hale and hearty not to take out health insurance.
    — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Galatasaray'ın ertelenmiş sorunları birike birike bu hale geldi.
    — SI.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The service comes with hale time, which means I was left to enjoy this luxurious mini spa by myself.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Plummer looked and acted hale enough to thrive for another ten or 15 or who knows how many years, working all the way to the final curtain.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Perhaps more intriguing, those people were fairly healthy — most were hale and hearty enough to be pilgrims, yoga students or river-rafters.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Such signals of fitness have been compared to peacock tail feathers, which would be too much of a burden if the peacock were not hale enough to escape predators.
    — Christopher D. Lynn, CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
  • And if a few extra days of rest now mean that Chapman will be hearty and hale in October, that silver lining may look more like a brass ring.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2018
  • Then, to qualify for a happy afterlife, the body needed to look as hale and hearty as possible and kept as intact as possible.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2020
  • This hale and hearty chili from Kitchen Scoop columnist Alicia Ross features lots of veggies and the lean meatiness of ground turkey.
    — OregonLive.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • At 98, the last surviving worker remains relatively hale and won’t retire.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The resort grounds were a bustle of hyperactive, impossibly hale young creatures on holiday.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Max passed through Marketing with its many Whitewomen and arrived at Product, with its many tall and hale Whitemen.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Neighbors said that not so long ago, Tony seemed hale—a stocky figure walking down the sidewalk in a tank top, like a pint-size, sure-stepping Marlon Brando.
    — Wired, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Hard Aces qualifies as a hard knocker — a hale, resilient type who is hardly tiptoeing into senior citizenhood.
    — Mike Tierney, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
  • Trump has appeared hale in his public appearances since reemerging from quarantine, though at moments during his economic address on Wednesday his voice was raspy.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2020
  • This Cupid’s saucy moment in the spotlight led off the Inca soiree, and for his hale and hearty efforts he was rewarded with raucous applause and showers of doubloons.
    — al, 21 Feb. 2020
  • But the more relevant numbers are much bigger, along with the thought of having Porzingis hale and hearty as a legitimate free-agent-talent magnet heading into the summer.
    — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2016
  • One individual of Myotis brandtii, a small bat about a third the size of a mouse, was recaptured, still hale and hearty, 41 years after it was initially banded.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
  • As Woods rested, per doctors’ orders, so did a hale LaCava, who could have found lucrative work caddying for any number of other stars.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
  • More than one man in our jurisdiction is hale and whole to-day who owes his health to the incident of physical examination for the draft and the kindly interest of the examining physician.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
  • Stubbs, always wonderful, reveals the layers of Rastus; Beneath his hale and hearty, subservient circuitry runs a current of utter human despair.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Gabriel is enraged that John, the child of a doomed love in Elizabeth’s youth, is hale and bound for a life in the church, while his biological son, Roy, is defiant and badly wounded.
    — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
  • His appeal, then and now, is a hale-fellow, Joe Biden-esque ability to come across as a scrappy average guy with a relatable stringy comb-over who is empathetic to the working poor.
    — Steve Friess, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • These tropes are resistant to the facts on the ground, where the art form is hale and hearty (albeit a little hard up for cash), but one formerly common narrative of decline has largely disappeared in the face of incontrovertible strength.
    — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
  • Coykendall, a hale blue-eyed fellow of 69 years given to Round House brand overalls, possesses a magical touch with topsoil, vegetables, and his fellow humans.
    — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 26 Nov. 2012

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