Used in a Sentence

gray-haired

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for gray-haired.

Editorial note

If you target average 65 year old women, then you show gray-haired above-average-health 55-year women.

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Quick take

Alternative form of grey-haired. [Having grey hair.]

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gray-haired gathered in one view.

adjective

Alternative form of grey-haired. [Having grey hair.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gray-haired.

Example sentences

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If you target average 65 year old women, then you show gray-haired above-average-health 55-year women.

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I now have a younger engineer wanting to be mentored by the old gray-haired guy how they can improve.

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Or maybe only gray-haired curmudgeons are working on this...

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Also, he's gray-haired and he looks a bit dorky.

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He looked just like a comfortable gray-haired engineer, calmly standing on the sidewalk with a heavy wire cutter, snipping the connectors off a computer cable someone had set out on the curb.

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In Europe the old rusty impotent gray-haired managers wont even listen to you, even if you offer them a goddamn magic bean or a money printer machine.

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Sure, there are bad apples, but the culture that you'll find at a gray-haired research lab or even a more traditional, supposedly conservative, enterprise shop is not nearly as exclusionary as the supposedly progressive and new Silicon Valley culture.

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> In Europe the old rusty impotent gray-haired managers wont even listen to you, even if you offer them a goddamn magic bean or a money printer machine.

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Most of the biotech companies coming out of YC are what I'd characterize as total fliers -- unlike the company highlighted by the Forbes article, these startups aren't being founded by a collection of gray-haired biotech executives with a collective 200 years of research experience in a single disease.

Quote examples

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Just as an example: as a gray-haired professor, I use "du" and my first name with my students.

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) story from 2010 has this bizarre anecdote: "The door opened, and a distinguished-looking gray-haired man burst in — it's the only way to describe his entrance — trailed by a couple of deputies.

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Don't forget that the FBI has an office AT Facebook HQ, as mentioned in the writeup of Zuckerberg when he was named Time's person of the year: "The door opened, and a distinguished-looking gray-haired man burst in — it's the only way to describe his entrance — trailed by a couple of deputies.

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Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, "Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?" So, would you kill your mother to pay for someone else's maternity leave?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use gray-haired in a sentence?

If you target average 65 year old women, then you show gray-haired above-average-health 55-year women.

What does gray-haired mean?

Alternative form of grey-haired. [Having grey hair.]

What part of speech is gray-haired?

gray-haired is commonly used as adjective.