: sprinkled or streaked with gray : graying
a grizzled beard
also
: having gray hair
a grizzled veteran
Examples of grizzled in a Sentence
He had thinning hair and a grizzled beard.
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
Two-minute drives aren’t easy even for grizzled veterans playing in their own stadium.
—Matt Barrows, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
The Great Work is about a grizzled alchemist and his nephew tracking a strange creature through the Washington wilderness near the end of the nineteenth century.
—Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Aside from local sports stories written by grizzled veteran Barry (Duane Shepard), there’s very little material about Toledo in the paper.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for grizzled
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“Grizzled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grizzled. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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grizzled
adjective
griz·zled
ˈgriz-əld 
: sprinkled, streaked, or mixed with gray
a grizzled beard
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