: 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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Jonathan Hensleigh’s 2021 film starred Liam Neeson in one of his off-the-rack late-career action performances as a grizzled trucker who agrees to drive across a frozen lake to rescue a group of miners from a collapsing mine.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 26 June 2025
The Wampanoag seem to add unique local flavor to their visit, like the grizzled Quint does in Jaws.
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On the same March 3 morning, the county asked for help identifying a wisp-thin elderly man with a grizzled beard and swollen black eye who’d been found in Monterey Park’s Edison Trails Park.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 26 June 2025
The Wampanoag seem to add unique local flavor to their visit, like the grizzled Quint does in Jaws.
—Joseph Lee, People.com, 20 June 2025
On the same March 3 morning, the county asked for help identifying a wisp-thin elderly man with a grizzled beard and swollen black eye who’d been found in Monterey Park’s Edison Trails Park.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2025
Robbins will play Russell Kind, a rough and grizzled settler with a cynical world view.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 12 June 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 9 Jul. 2025.
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grizzled
adjective
griz·zled
ˈgriz-əld 
: sprinkled, streaked, or mixed with gray
a grizzled beard
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