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How to use bearded in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Bearded means having a beard; involving a beard. Example: “Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.”

Examples of bearded by meaning

adjectiveHaving a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.

  • Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998

More sentences with bearded

  • The bearded dragon will reach its adult length by one year.2008, Suzanne Buckingham, Meet the Bearded Dragon, page 20. From the entry beardy
  • Its narratives frankly puzzled him—the parade of bearded kings and prophets, their curious ravings.1993, Carol Shields, chapter 3, in The Stone Diaries, page 85. From the entry parade
  • In the corner sits a small bald, bearded man beheadphoned—Degas’s Absinthe Drinker in a Walkman.1990, J. B. Miller, My Life in Action Painting, New York, N.Y.: Grove Weidenfeld, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry beheadphoned
  • Men, bearded, hirsute, sat dolefully at the bar, eyes translucent from diurnal boozings.1989, Bill Kauffman, Every Man a King, page 220. From the entry boozing
  • "See, people were at first scared of Jim--bearded, berobed, Moses-like patriarchal figure that he was.1989 November 3, Grant Pick, “The Rag Man of Lincoln Park”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry berobed
  • When that happened we went out with our kayaks, mostly for oogruks, or big bearded seals.1987, Paul Tiulana, A place for winter: Paul Tiulana's story, page 13. From the entry oogruk
  • The audience was made up almost entirely of international youth, bearded and jeaned and unwashed.1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 79, in Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson. From the entry jeaned
  • The sylvans who guarded the palace were bearded buffoons, lazy and stupid but fierce.1976, Jane Krier, The English Masque: Vanished Court Drama (unpublished M.A. dissertation), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC…. From the entry sylvan
  • In acknowledgment to the wise old bearded scholars who helped make this book possible . . .1968, Martin Marcus, Yiddish for Yankees: Or, Funny, You Don't Look Gentile, page 9. From the entry chochem
  • I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, page 92. From the entry beard
  • Big men, bearded and powerful, pushing up stream with the cordelle on their shoulders!1927, John G. Neihardt, The River and I. From the entry cordelle
  • He was not to be bearded thus in his own seat of office.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry beard
  • He recognized it at once for that of the bearded and efficient German, and lay artistically inert.1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary. From the entry collect one's wits
  • Inside, two bearded men are working on a busted fuel pump, and another is repairing a bicycle derailer.2016, Erik Reece, Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Idea, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry derailer
  • Even if a kid accepts Santa, she or he may panic about the bearded icon in certain situations.2016 December 11, Emalie Marthe, “Why Kids Are Unreasonably Terrified of Santa Claus”, in Vice. From the entry Santaphobe
  • I turned and saw a bearded middle-aged gentleman in a flatcap standing at the end of the driveway.2013, Michael Siemsen, A Warm Place to Call Home. From the entry flatcap
  • Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry flannel
  • Sometimes the bearded creatures looked back at me.'2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 584. From the entry blackclad
  • IN FOUR years as India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh has come to resemble a bearded and turbaned Aunt Sally.2008 June 26, “Manmohan Singh’s burning ambition”, in The Economist, →ISSN. From the entry Aunt Sally
  • At the same time, they jeered the heels, the masked men, the arrogant, bearded Russians and Germans, and the treacherous Japanese.2007, Gary Howard, “Linking the East and the North”, in The Rassler from Renfrew: The History of Northland Wrestling Enterprises…. From the entry baby face
  • Behind it was a typically bearded, casually dressed Greenpeace type.1998, Robert I. Eaton, Thrust in Your Sickle But Watch Your Fingers, page 60. From the entry Greenpeace
  • Earlier in the voyage a curious bearded seal (top) had surfaced in Anderson Bay off Victoria Island to inspect us.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 599. From the entry surface
  • A backslapping, beerswilling Jack-the-Lad who wears chunky gold jewellery and cracks crude gags about “bearded oysters” and pooftahs.1989, Hilary Prendini Toffoli, Gus Silber, Who′s Really Who in South Africa, page 168. From the entry pooftah
  • Back in the alcove I watched as a bearded daddy type whipped a guy who was bent over the sawhorse.1989 February 12, Christopher Wittke, “A Leather Belt Is The Perfect Accessory...”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 8. From the entry topman
  • Just this week, the bearded Ozzie Smith was told not to shave, but to stop doing acrobatic backflips before baseball games.1986 March 3, Mike Downey, “Next, They’ll Tell Magic Not to Smile”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times…. From the entry hot doggery
  • I'd like to mt you if you're a bearded ‘Teddy Bear,’ husky build, under 34 & share a career orientation.1980 August 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14. From the entry teddy bear
  • Orgo is being taught this year by Professor Maitland Jones Jr., a bearded, enthusiastic man who admits he "loves" teaching it.1973 April 23, Brad Swanson, “On The Campus”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 74, page 60. From the entry orgo
  • In the front room, Podson had sped to the mirror, vastly affronted at the bearded goggler staring back at him.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 145. From the entry goggler
  • Glittereyed, his rufous skull close to his greencapped desklamp sought the face, bearded amid darkgreener shadow, an ollav, holyeyed.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry ollav
  • For so close to life were they that one might swear the graceful bearded gods themselves sate on the ivory thrones.1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath. From the entry eikon
  • Sometimes, with sentries posted, after a banquet with the Olympianly bearded priest, the mayor and the village elders, we would stay the night.2010, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Words of Mercury, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry Olympianly
  • Why on earth has the bearded and becardiganed hectomillionaire chosen to submit himself to playing the game at such a small level?2010 May 21, Duff McDonald, “Jon Corzine: Glutton for punishment”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 25 May 2010. From the entry hectomillionaire
  • The closest figure to the central part of facade is the bearded ktitor of the church holding its model in his right hand.2004, Leri Tavadze, “Social Composition of Feudal Georgia According to Korogho Reliefs”, in Proceedings. Institute of Georgian History.…. From the entry ktetor
  • Craw was happy as a sandboy, he reported: quite his former vile self, but a bit dazed to be bearded by Luke without warning.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 23. From the entry sandboy
  • All round the hall, like glittering waxworks, stood the tall, bearded sowars of the Governor’s bodyguard, with pennoned lances in their hands.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 25”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers…. From the entry pennoned
  • Unkempt, bearded to the eyes, there he stood clutching his shapeless old cabbage-tree, in mud-stained jumper and threadbare smalls—the very spit of the unsuccessful digger.1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Echo Library, published 2007, page 31. From the entry smalls
  • Tarzan wondered in a lazy sort of way whom she might be, and what relations one so lovely could have with the surly, bearded Russian.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 17. From the entry lazy
  • The kitchen maid would lay out the ingredients: bunches of herbs, a jar of cuminseeds, the bearded leeks, garlic, the honey jar, the olive-oil cruet—and, of course, the liquamen.2018, Betty Wason, Cooks, Gluttons and Gourmets: A History of Cookery. From the entry liquamen
  • What bothered him more, he thought as he started Washoe southward, was Spikes's animosity, the bearded man's sudden violent reaction to his arrival at the gather.2014, Paul Lederer, Dark Angel Riding, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry gather

Meaning of bearded

  1. adjective Having a beard; involving a beard.
  2. adjective Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
  3. adjective Of an axe: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.

Full definition of bearded

Questions about bearded in a sentence

How do you use bearded in a sentence?
Bearded is used as an adjective. For example: “Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.”
What is a short sentence with bearded?
“Sometimes the bearded creatures looked back at me.'”
What does bearded mean?
Bearded means having a beard; involving a beard.

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