BALD in a Sentence

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For BALD, below is one of 64 sentences:
He was prematurely bald on the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't lie down but stood up bristling.

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 Meanings and Examples of BALD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bald
 a.  hairless; lacking a natural or usual covering
Classic Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  He was prematurely bald on the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't lie down but stood up bristling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
2  Then, I saw that his head was furrowed and bald, and that the long iron-gray hair grew only on its sides.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
3  What I was chained to, and how heavily, became intelligible to me, as I heard his hoarse voice, and sat looking up at his furrowed bald head with its iron gray hair at the sides.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
4  As I was not able to cut my dinner, the old landlord with a shining bald head did it for me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
5  He was bald on the top of his head; and had some thin wet-looking hair that was just turning grey, brushed across each temple, so that the two sides interlaced on his forehead.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
6  You'd be as bald as a friar on the top of your head in twelve months, but for me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
7  The scanty, wet-looking grey hair, by which I remembered him, was almost gone; and the thick veins in his bald head were none the more agreeable to look at.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
8  I've seen that theer bald head of his a perspiring in the sun, Mas'r Davy, till I a'most thowt it would have melted away.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. A VISITOR
9  Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald watchmaker, "that the German was wound up for a whole lifetime himself, to wind up watches," and he smiled.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
10  The cattle, bald in patches where the new hair had not grown yet, lowed in the pastures; the bowlegged lambs frisked round their bleating mothers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
11  Vronsky was in fact beginning, prematurely, to get a little bald.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 20
12  A bald, well-preserved old man, with a broad, red beard, gray on his cheeks, opened the gate, squeezing against the gatepost to let the three horses pass.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 25
13  The lawyer was a little, squat, bald man, with a dark, reddish beard, light-colored long eyebrows, and an overhanging brow.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
14  Vronsky took off his soft, wide-brimmed hat and passed his handkerchief over his heated brow and hair, which had grown half over his ears, and was brushed back covering the bald patch on his head.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
15  Kartasov, a fat, bald man, was continually looking round at Anna, while he attempted to soothe his wife.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 33
Example Sentence:
1  The announcement came in a bald statement from the official news agency.
2  Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
3  Yeah, and you can still see a bald eagle at the Desert Museum.
4  A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
5  A bald head is soon shaven.
6  Our dog has a bald patch on its leg.
7  The bald statistics tell us nothing about the underlying trends.
8  He has a theory that wearing hats makes men go bald.
9  Although he carried, under his wig, a perfectly bald and shiny head, he had only reached middle age.
10  In the past the root of this plant was thought to possess magical powers which could cure baldness.