BEARD in a Sentence

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For BEARD, below is one of 198 sentences:
He was a tall, thin old man with a bald head, which shone pinkishly dirty, and a grizzled beard so long he could tuck it in his belt.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
beard
 n.  hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
Classic Sentence: (187 in 13 pages)
1  He was tall and gaunt and wore a pointed beard of iron gray, and his clothes hung on his spare figure as though blown there by a hurricane.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  His shoulders were sagging and his head bowed until his gray beard spread out fanlike on his chest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  "I had a full beard to show you girls," said Ashley, ruefully rubbing his face where half-healed razor nicks still showed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  It was a beautiful beard and if I do say it myself, neither Jeb Stuart nor Nathan Bedford Forrest had a handsomer one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  They got me down and shaved me, and it's a wonder my head didn't come off along with the beard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  "I shall talk frankly to you, Miss Scarlett," he began, jerking at his gray beard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  He said frankly that he preferred the Captain's swearing and bullying to his daughter-in-law's coddling, and her incessant demands that he give up chewing tobacco and launder his beard every day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  His shirt and trousers were as red as a butcher's and even the end of his iron-gray beard was matted with blood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  One, a tall spare man with a black beard that hung to his belt, silently handed his own rifle and that of the boy to the other.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  He sat slouched in the saddle, a thick, rough-looking man with an unkempt black beard straggling over his unbuttoned blue jacket.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  "Well, I," began Frank and again clawed nervously at his beard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  His ginger-colored beard was scantier than ever, streaked with tobacco juice and as ragged as if he clawed at it incessantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  This was not the meek Frank she knew, the nervous beard clawer who she had learned could be bullied with such ease.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  Frank passed a tired hand over his wet beard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  He was a tall, thin old man with a bald head, which shone pinkishly dirty, and a grizzled beard so long he could tuck it in his belt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence:
1  If the beard were all, the goat might preach.
2  It took courage for her to beard the board of directors.
3  Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
4  Somehow I can't imagine him without a beard.
5  I don't like myself without a beard.
6  I didn't recognize him-he's grown a beard.
7  He had a sort of reddish beard.
8  Removing the beard is against his religious beliefs, so Singh refused the razor and instead hired a human-rights lawyer.
9  His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth and chin bristly with a coarse, hard beard; his face never clean, but always distorted with a ghastly grin.
10  It was the "Rockaway Beach Guy," as some residents know the man with the neon green beard who regularly saunters across the Boardwalk there.
11  According as the shifting obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke that bent his brow.