: 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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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 18 July 2025
Plenty of grizzled characters smoking big cigars and tearing up losing tickets with disgust, not a pretty picture!
—David Weiss, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
And San Diego’s grizzled sports fans know that can happen, even within best-in-the-world sports leagues.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
The sauce was an instant hit with the veterans who served as his grizzled daily taste-testers.
—John Tuohy, IndyStar, 11 July 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 30 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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