gray-haired

How To Use gray-haired In A Sentence

• The last prisoner in the coffle was the tailor, a gray-haired, elderly man with a wrinkled face. The Magic of Krynn
• On Washington Avenue, where clubs now pulse till dawn, stores used to sell whitefish and five-and-dime notions to gray-haired ladies like Mrs. Wallach. Lea Lane: South Beach: Then and Now
• The headmistress was a tall gray-haired woman with a slight stoop that betrayed her age. Pendragon Before the War
• It was a photograph of a gray-haired man rowing a boat at sea, and in the bow of the boat is a rhinocerous. Kateelliott: Agents, Publishers, Rejection, Aspiring Writers
• Also, a great nation having made up its mind that hanging is quite the wholesomest process for its homicides in general, can yet with mercy distinguish between the degrees of guilt in homicides; and does not yelp like a pack of frost-pinched wolf-cubs on the blood-track of an unhappy crazed boy, or gray-haired clodpate Othello, "perplexed i 'the extreme," at the very moment that it is sending a Minister of the Crown to make polite speeches to a man who is bayoneting young girls in their father's sight, and killing noble youths in cool blood, faster than a country butcher kills lambs in spring. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• Not surprisingly, the gray-haired veteran shuns sophisticated financial instruments to hedge against interest-rate increases.
• Balding, gray-haired, just five feet eight in his stocking feet, he had what one journalist called the gaunt demeanor of a church elder. In the Shadow of the Oval Office
• ‘In those days’, Hancock noted, ‘it was considered indecorous for angels of mercy to appear otherwise than gray-haired and spectacled’.
• From the start, he has sought out gray-haired mentors to help show him the way.
• Wemple went down, returning in several minutes with a tidily-paunched, well-built, gray-haired American of fifty. WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE