How to Use hirsute in a Sentence

hirsute

adjective
  • Dusty Hill, the hirsute bass player with ZZ Top, has passed away at 72.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 29 July 2021
  • She’s wearing a halter and hot pants and sitting between two hirsute guys with big hair and beards.
    Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Acne also released a hirsute cow-print boot that almost hit the knee.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Huge, hairy, and with a pair of fearsome tusks, mastodons resembled stocky, hirsute elephants.
    Nicola Davis, Wired, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The less lucky of the lot are Madeleine Gonsalvus and her little brother, sons of the hirsute man Petrus Gonsalvus, painted in all their hairy elegance in 1580.
    Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Marc Jacobs debuted a hirsute pointy-toed heel with a sparkly Cousin Itt ’do.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In the office, the manager of the Solutions team, a hirsute man with a belly laugh, presented me with a series of questions and puzzles.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Our group of nine people on five snowmobiles was overseen by a amiable, hirsute young man named Garrett.
    Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Glimpsed through the trees of the country lane passing through the neighborhood, the house looks bearded, with tall native grasses growing in long, low planters and hirsute berms rising to the second story.
    Joseph Giovannini, ELLE Decor, 2 July 2015
  • Chris Stapleton The hirsute country-rock-soul troubadour has new music on the way to coincide with his pair of Atlanta shows.
    Atlanta Life, ajc, 5 May 2017
  • But the trailer for the film, which also showcases Jodie Comer and Adam Driver, displays a hirsute horror for the two consummate movie stars.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Vendors are busy selling everything from zero-euro notes with Marx's hirsute face on them (for nearly $4) to rubber ducks wearing Marx-style beards.
    Erik Kirschbaum, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • First came the Greens, founded in 1980, who quickly morphed from hirsute radicals into a party of government.
    The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Dozens of men, several flamboyantly hirsute in the Old West style, vastly outnumber the women.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Tsitsipas, a hirsute Greek with a one-handed backhand and an all-court game, has beaten Djokovic twice already on Djokovic’s favorite surface: outdoor hardcourts.
    New York Times, 11 June 2021
  • In my main feed and the app’s Explore and Reels tabs, Instagram was building a crescendo of shock: There were babies missing limbs, babies with bulging veins, babies with too-small heads, babies with too-big heads, even hirsute babies.
    Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
  • That last subplot will find the hirsute accordionist transforming first into John Wick, then into Rambo.
    John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Palmieri was all but unrecognizable at his first practice with the Islanders, free of his hirsute beard per Lamoriello policy.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • No doubt channeling his energy into these efforts, rather than hirsute pursuits, has proven a lot more gratifying to Denning.
    Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Mandico sets the stage via a chorus of overlapping narrators, their disembodied heads (and naked hirsute shoulders) floating in space: The atmosphere on After Blue is toxic to men, whose hair grew inward and killed them off.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 June 2022
  • The night’s revelation, however, may have come from the hirsute young British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt.
    Matt Diehl, Billboard, 27 June 2017
  • The story, considered the oldest in human history, follows the beefy god-king Gilgamesh and his hirsute friend Enkidu on various moronic trials of strength through forbidding landscapes stalked by monsters.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The clip then transitions to a shot of a string quartet playing swelling chords as Cave’s hirsute collaborator, Warren Ellis, conducts them dramatically.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The mother here, in contrast, after a certain understandable initial ambivalence about her hirsute transformation, begins to see her unruly life and unruly flesh, with its milk and cravings and teeth, as a source of inspiration.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
  • Patricia also has noticed the difference in Hockenson, whose attitude and hirsute new look are easily appreciated by his coach.
    Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2020

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