ADJECTIVE
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showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
nodded his hoary head
whose beard with age is hoar
How To Use gray-headed In A Sentence
- He ended by sitting on the end of the bed of a gray-headed man who owns three titles and whose word is law between the borders of a province. In The Time Of Light
- “They cut school, they hung out... until one day they were gray-headed, no teeth in their mouth, and the young guy that everybody thought was cool was just an old bum on his way to old bumblehood.” FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
- Encouraging the animals, known as gray-headed flying foxes, to leave some of Sydney's prime waterfront real estate is proving difficult. In Sydney, Unwanted Guests Urged to Find New Belfry
- Common winter residents are the pink-sided junco, Shufeldt's junco, gray-headed junco, red-backed junco, Rocky Mountain nuthatch, mountain bluebird, robin, and Steller's jay. Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Bailey)
- They await Hardman Pool, a gray-headed and bearded haole who is patriarch over Koolau ranchlands, has fourteen adult children, countless grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
- When I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me," the Psalmist wrote, "until I declare Your strength to this generation. Larry Ross: At Home With Billy Graham On His 93rd Birthday
- The bat they studied was the gray-headed flying fox, about the size of a small chihuahua and sporting a nearly four-foot wingspan.
- He ignored him so pointedly that eventually Crassus stamped off in a rage, leaving a dozen or so gray-headed senators gathered around Nepos. CONSPIRATA
- Now, gray-headed flying foxes are a protected species in Australia due to the loss of habitats, and moving them requires government approval. In Sydney, Unwanted Guests Urged to Find New Belfry
- Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus.