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hoary-headed

/hawr-ee-hed-id, hohr-/US // ˈhɔr iˈhɛd ɪd, ˈhoʊr- //

葫芦头,葫芦娃,葫芦丝,葫芦岛

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the gray or white hair of advanced age.

Examples

  • Here she is in June saying “Trans politics and feminism have never been headed to the same place.”

  • Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.

  • Rodriguez now headed home to his kids, as did thousands of other police parents.

  • He headed west in 1860 for health reasons and to join the gold rush in Colorado.

  • He had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend early that morning in Baltimore and headed for his native Brooklyn.

  • But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."

  • But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.

  • The pig-headed prowler I saw, with my pompon missing from his shoe, and his bonne amie wearing the stolen ring.

  • She wondered if he would take his youth in his bald-headed season, like the self-made American millionaire.

  • They divested themselves of their coats and vests, and, bare-headed, each advanced to receive his weapon.