whiskered

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for whiskered
Adjective
  • Only a friend of the director’s, a bearded peer who was writing a script set in a galaxy far, far away, predicted success.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025
  • The tall, bearded Mainer is an engineer on an offshore oil drilling ship in the Gulf of Mexico.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 20 June 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
  • There’s also a great romantic sub-plot involving Andy torn between two dudes, the shaggy, non-industry, great grill-cheesemaking Nate (Entourage‘s Adrian Grenier) and a fellow fashion industry colleague Christian Thompson played by Simon Baker.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 30 June 2025
  • The boy, whose head is full of shaggy black hair, is the youngest in his household of six.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 27 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 green leaves are splotched with white and bumpy on the upper side, and the stems are hairy, which deters deer.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 6 July 2025
  • Small, hairy hominids emerge — but the twist is that Superman must protect these Mole Men from the prairie mob who want to shoot the outsiders on sight.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
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“Whiskered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiskered. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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