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Example sentences for "stubbly"

Lexicographically close words:
stub; stubbed; stubble; stubbled; stubbles; stubborn; stubborne; stubbornly; stubbornness; stubby
  1. One morning, as the last bell rang and they were taking their seats, Fanny passed his desk and gave his coarse and stubbly hair a tweak.

  2. She bent and kissed the top of the stubbly head, bowed so low now.

  3. Partly; but it takes more than water to remove a two-days' growth of beard," and Stewart ran a rueful finger over his stubbly chin.

  4. It was thinner and paler; there were dark circles of exhaustion under the eyes; a stubbly beard covered the haggard cheeks, across one of which was an ugly scratch.

  5. It was a tall bony shape in a yellow frock, with its head wrapped in a red cloth, from beneath which coal-black, stubbly bristles peeped forth.

  6. And with that he stroked out his stubbly mustaches with both hands and stretched out his arms to clasp pretty Michal round the waist.

  7. Mr Dodd was a bachelor--rather a bald bachelor, with a great deal of very smooth white crown, surrounded by a neat little stubbly fence of very black bristly hair.

  8. But she had left him, and was laughing with Peggy Blackton, who was showing her husband where he had missed a stubbly patch of beard on his cheek.

  9. When Peggy Blackton led her husband to the stair, and drove him up to shave off the stubbly patch, Joanne found the opportunity to whisper to him: "You are rude, John Aldous!

  10. Where once the long white clay wall covered with stubbly thatch had stood, there was now a row of brand-new brick palaces, with iron bolts and locks, stone porches, and a system of covered drainage round about.

  11. In that room three men were assembled round a table; the eldest of whom, endowed with little grey eyes, a stubbly beard, and that mysterious something only found in those who have been mayors, rose at once and came towards him.

  12. As he was looking at them, suddenly the face of one of them grew into a coarse, bad face, with a stubbly beard and a patch over one eye, and it seemed to him that he wanted to catch that man very much.

  13. Yellow, ravaged, clothed almost to the eyes in a stubbly greyish growth of beard, with blackish teeth, and haunting bloodshot eyes.

  14. Bindle had disappeared with the man with the stubbly chin and two others in search of the nearest public-house, a mile away.

  15. No more blinkin' camps for me," said the man with the stubbly chin.

  16. The man with the stubbly chin nodded dolefully.

  17. If the man with the stubbly chin were right in his diagnosis, the birds, like Prometheus, had, during the night, renewed their missing organisms.

  18. It's Sunday to-morrow," was the rejoinder; but Bindle had strolled away to commune with the man with a stubbly chin and pessimistic soul.

  19. It was the man with the stubbly chin speaking.

  20. Come an' 'ave a look at Daisy," he heard the man with the stubbly chin say.

  21. All right now," growled the man with the stubbly chin as he looked up at the grey scudding clouds and then down at the rain-soaked grass.

  22. Whilst Bindle was strolling round the camp with the man with the stubbly chin, Mrs. Bindle was becoming better acquainted with the peculiar temperament of a bell-tent.

  23. In the beginning, young Dean had wanted to go to the Army of the Potomac, as did Chad, but one quiet word from the taciturn colonel with the stubbly reddish-brown beard and the perpetual black cigar kept both where they were.

  24. Chad turned and saw a short, thick-set man with a stubbly brown beard, whose eyes were twinkling, though his face was grave.

  25. Meanwhile, stubbly HanĂ¡k had placed behind the old man's back a gipsy brickmaker to keep an eye on him, and touch him up with a whip if he refused to confess.

  26. Half way to the distant sky-line, the horses of the squadron were grazing peacefully over the stubbly grass.

  27. On his cheek, an inch or so above his stubbly beard, was a wide cross of plaster, and his left wrist wore a narrow bandage.

  28. He drew his hand down his stubbly grey beard.

  29. The man's hair was grey, a little stubbly grey beard was jutting out from his chin.

  30. She tugged it laboriously across the stubbly field, and her short, panting breaths did not reach Nan's ear, full of the near rustle of leaves and the hum of the scudding wind.

  31. The child nodded her head and pranced over the brown, stubbly ground with dancing feet, her cheeks aglow and her eyes flashing with satisfaction.

  32. Perhaps you would ask your friend with the stubbly hair to remain quiet," snorted Sir Alexander.

  33. Once Betty had caught Meggy looking longingly at Nigger as he was trying his best to get some nourishment from the stubbly grass, and with the quick impulsiveness that was hers, she asked the girl if she would like a ride.

  34. Saw Dunn's stubbly fair hair, clipped close till it stood on end, as it had on the skull I'd said a prayer over and buried; saw Collins standing on the long shank bones I knew I had buried in the bush!

  35. They were plunging into a rough and stubbly wood lot, and hushing each other excitedly.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stubbly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bewhiskered; bristling; bristly; hairy; harsh; hirsute; stubbled; studded