How to Use hale in a Sentence

hale

adjective

• The doctor was a large, hale man, with a coxcomb of thinning red hair.
  — Adam O’Fallon Price, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Hoping to contrast the white with a blue like hale navy above the chair rail in the dining area and on the kitchen island.
  — The Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
• Like Hockney himself, hale and fruitful at the age of eighty-one, the film has weathered well.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• Each spacious hale functions like a standalone spa rather than a run-of-the-mill treatment room.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• As the weeks drag on, the hale clarity of my normal self is receding.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2020
• This hale and hearty chili from Kitchen Scoop columnist Alicia Ross features lots of veggies and the lean meatiness of ground turkey.
  — OregonLive.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Plummer looked and acted hale enough to thrive for another ten or 15 or who knows how many years, working all the way to the final curtain.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2021
• And if a few extra days of rest now mean that Chapman will be hearty and hale in October, that silver lining may look more like a brass ring.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2018
• Greater transparency may encourage the hale and hearty not to take out health insurance.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• What is more, the American economy seems as hale as ever.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• The service comes with hale time, which means I was left to enjoy this luxurious mini spa by myself.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• Neighbors said that not so long ago, Tony seemed hale—a stocky figure walking down the sidewalk in a tank top, like a pint-size, sure-stepping Marlon Brando.
  — Wired, 17 Sep. 2019
• Such signals of fitness have been compared to peacock tail feathers, which would be too much of a burden if the peacock were not hale enough to escape predators.
  — Christopher D. Lynn, CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
• Max passed through Marketing with its many Whitewomen and arrived at Product, with its many tall and hale Whitemen.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• This Cupid’s saucy moment in the spotlight led off the Inca soiree, and for his hale and hearty efforts he was rewarded with raucous applause and showers of doubloons.
  — al, 21 Feb. 2020
• Gabriel is enraged that John, the child of a doomed love in Elizabeth’s youth, is hale and bound for a life in the church, while his biological son, Roy, is defiant and badly wounded.
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• Mr. Dohnanyi, looking hale at 85, almost seemed at times to be playing an organ, pulling this or that stop to shift colorations seamlessly and blend sonorities smoothly.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2016
• Out in the cold sunshine of the patio, parents lead wobbly kids from the slopes toward the parking lots, weaving through an assortment of free-ranging dogs and hale locals, who share BYO beers and the deep laughter of the young and the free.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
• Then, to qualify for a happy afterlife, the body needed to look as hale and hearty as possible and kept as intact as possible.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2020
• One individual of Myotis brandtii, a small bat about a third the size of a mouse, was recaptured, still hale and hearty, 41 years after it was initially banded.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
• Perhaps more intriguing, those people were fairly healthy — most were hale and hearty enough to be pilgrims, yoga students or river-rafters.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
• Be sure to book an appointment at the Anara Spa, where the facials and full-body massages are taken under a hale, a thatched roof bungalow, and the scent of vanilla oil mingles with the fragrant floral overgrowth.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• But the more relevant numbers are much bigger, along with the thought of having Porzingis hale and hearty as a legitimate free-agent-talent magnet heading into the summer.
  — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2016
• Galatasaray'ın ertelenmiş sorunları birike birike bu hale geldi.
  — SI.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• The paper on gingkoes, published in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that in terms of reproduction and photosynthesis the 600-year-old trees were hale and hearty.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2020
• As Woods rested, per doctors’ orders, so did a hale LaCava, who could have found lucrative work caddying for any number of other stars.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
• His appeal, then and now, is a hale-fellow, Joe Biden-esque ability to come across as a scrappy average guy with a relatable stringy comb-over who is empathetic to the working poor.
  — Steve Friess, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
• At 98, the last surviving worker remains relatively hale and won’t retire.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• More than one man in our jurisdiction is hale and whole to-day who owes his health to the incident of physical examination for the draft and the kindly interest of the examining physician.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
• Coykendall, a hale blue-eyed fellow of 69 years given to Round House brand overalls, possesses a magical touch with topsoil, vegetables, and his fellow humans.
  — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 26 Nov. 2012

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