How to Use hirsute in a Sentence

hirsute

adjective
  • Acne also released a hirsute cow-print boot that almost hit the knee.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Huge, hairy, and with a pair of fearsome tusks, mastodons resembled stocky, hirsute elephants.
    — Nicola Davis, Wired, 5 Sep. 2020
  • But while the sloths provide a hirsute home, the algae also need nutrients in order to survive.
    — Darren Incorvaia, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Dusty Hill, the hirsute bass player with ZZ Top, has passed away at 72.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 29 July 2021
  • Our group of nine people on five snowmobiles was overseen by a amiable, hirsute young man named Garrett.
    — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Cameron Hardin, an affable, hirsute Eastman, Georgia stay-at-home dad, has been placed as a pawn two weeks in a row.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The more hirsute Bellucci was reduced to stealing a solitary game in the first hour from the purple streak of lightning running the show from the other side of the net.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In the office, the manager of the Solutions team, a hirsute man with a belly laugh, presented me with a series of questions and puzzles.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • No doubt channeling his energy into these efforts, rather than hirsute pursuits, has proven a lot more gratifying to Denning.
    — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Glimpsed through the trees of the country lane passing through the neighborhood, the house looks bearded, with tall native grasses growing in long, low planters and hirsute berms rising to the second story.
    — Joseph Giovannini, ELLE Decor, 2 July 2015
  • Females are more likely to select the most hirsute male bustards as mates, possibly because their more advanced age signifies greater experience.
    — Sarah Stanley, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2011
  • In all likelihood our common ancestor with bonobos and chimpanzees were predominantly hirsute, as are most mammals.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2010
  • Dozens of men, several flamboyantly hirsute in the Old West style, vastly outnumber the women.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Chris Stapleton The hirsute country-rock-soul troubadour has new music on the way to coincide with his pair of Atlanta shows.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 5 May 2017
  • Vendors are busy selling everything from zero-euro notes with Marx's hirsute face on them (for nearly $4) to rubber ducks wearing Marx-style beards.
    — Erik Kirschbaum, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • Palmieri was all but unrecognizable at his first practice with the Islanders, free of his hirsute beard per Lamoriello policy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • That last subplot will find the hirsute accordionist transforming first into John Wick, then into Rambo.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • First came the Greens, founded in 1980, who quickly morphed from hirsute radicals into a party of government.
    — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
  • But the trailer for the film, which also showcases Jodie Comer and Adam Driver, displays a hirsute horror for the two consummate movie stars.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Patricia also has noticed the difference in Hockenson, whose attitude and hirsute new look are easily appreciated by his coach.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The less lucky of the lot are Madeleine Gonsalvus and her little brother, sons of the hirsute man Petrus Gonsalvus, painted in all their hairy elegance in 1580.
    — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Only one of the singers revealed listening to Swift on their own time — Chris Tungseth, a lovably hirsute country boy in the Bo Bice/Sundance Head mode.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The mother here, in contrast, after a certain understandable initial ambivalence about her hirsute transformation, begins to see her unruly life and unruly flesh, with its milk and cravings and teeth, as a source of inspiration.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
  • The night’s revelation, however, may have come from the hirsute young British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt.
    — Matt Diehl, Billboard, 27 June 2017
  • The clip then transitions to a shot of a string quartet playing swelling chords as Cave’s hirsute collaborator, Warren Ellis, conducts them dramatically.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The story, considered the oldest in human history, follows the beefy god-king Gilgamesh and his hirsute friend Enkidu on various moronic trials of strength through forbidding landscapes stalked by monsters.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • By documenting lushly hirsute Japanese officials alongside their beardless counterparts, portraiture preserved a photographic record of colonial subjects’ visibly inferior status.
    — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 13 Sep. 2025

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