whiskered

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for whiskered
Adjective
  • Both were bearded; one blond and narrow-bodied (Mac), and the other dark haired and barrel shaped (Benjy).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
  • Interspersing The Phoenician Scheme are black-and-white scenes of Zsa-zsa’s dreams about his mortality, even meeting a white-haired and bearded God (Bill Murray).
    Armond White, National Review, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • And her new single is a duet with another, even more hirsute outlaw traditionalist, Jamey Johnson.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
  • In fact, plenty of other teams from the Oakland A’s of the ‘70s, who were actually paid $300 by owner Charley Finley to sport facial hair, to the scruffy and hirsute Red Sox of 2004, won it all with facial hair.
    Marc Edelman, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Head out onto the water to sail around the archipelago, keeping your eyes peeled for breaching minke whales and bearded seals, as well as shaggy muskoxen—one of the few megafauna to survive the Ice Age—and Arctic wolves patrolling the shoreline.
    Chloe Berge, Outside Online, 17 June 2025
  • For the occasion, Taylor-Johnson kept his curls shaggy.
    Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Hares are also born fully furred and with their eyes open, a trait called precocial, whereas rabbits are born hairless, blind, and vulnerable, needing more parental care in the early stages of life.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
  • But the felt’s furred obscurity conjured novel mysteries.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • The larvae are usually about an 1/8-inch long, tan and covered in hairy bristles.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 22 June 2025
  • This isn’t the first time that forest-dwelling creatures inspired by Nordic folklore have become a global pop-culture sensation in the form of collectible hairy figurines that are grotesque and cute at the same time.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 June 2025
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“Whiskered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiskered. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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