How to Use bearded in a Sentence

bearded

adjective
  • The others are from the head of a boy and the head of a bearded male.
    Reuters, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The old, bearded man in front of me kneeled and kissed the Afghan earth.
    Lina Abirafeh, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • The crowd screamed as the bearded man crumpled to the ground.
    August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020
  • The bearded man took Ayyub and Rai by the arm and led them away.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • One costume stumps the room: The Dude, i.e., a bearded dad in a bathrobe.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The long-bearded bassist for the Texas blues rock trio ZZ Top.
    Bernard McGhee, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Justin Kelley, who is large and bearded, led Greene to the front of the small crowd.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Next to a Star Wars group was a red, white, and blue booth and a bearded man in a suit.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • Left to right: an intaglio of Jupiter; a cameo of a dog; a cameo of a bearded man.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • But that [second-to-last] scene with the bearded guy, that was not me.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Many like the bearded look and leave the old fronds on the trunks for a unique appearance.
    Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • One of the fragments depicts the head of a boy, another the head of a horse, and the third the head of a bearded man.
    Elinda Labropoulou, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Across the room stands a man — tall, bearded, fully dressed.
    Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • This version of the West is all gray skies, dirty snow and bearded men caked in mud and blood.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
  • He’s got a boxy, bearded face, a sharp nose, and wears glasses.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Back to the future: Hazel hitches a ride with this big bearded guy in a van.
    Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The doors opened at the next stop, and a man about my age (mid-30s), leathery-faced and wiry-bearded, stumbled in.
    Michael P.h. Stanley, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2021
  • His legs were wrapped tightly around the goat-bearded man, who was whistling through his nose.
    Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • As his set winds down, a bearded man in Chaos merch sprints across the stage headed right for Ken.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2024
  • On the sidewalk a bearded man stood rooted, staring up at the sun.
    Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Young, bearded, brash, and fluent in memes, 39-year-old Bukele always had the physique du role to cater to the laser-eye brigade.
    Wired, 30 June 2021
  • Their main food sources are ringed and bearded seals, which also live in the Arctic.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
  • But the Santa season doesn’t end with Christmas for most of the white-bearded men.
    al, 24 Nov. 2021
  • One is a slight, bearded figure in a dark blue hoodie, jeans, and white socks.
    David Kushner, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Whales sing, toadfish hum, cod grunt, and bearded seals trill.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • Dating to the fifth century B.C.E., the sculpture fragments depict the head of a boy, a horse head and the head of a bearded man.
    Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Photos of Pärt from his school days show the bearded mystic of now to have been then something of a jock.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Do cut back the flower stalk on bearded and beardless iris as soon as the flowers fade.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2024
  • In mid-flight, she was approached by a short, bearded man wearing a beret.
    Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2020
  • One of the bearded contestants, who was wearing a Fairisle zip-up, did catch the former center's eye.
    Clare Fisher, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024

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