A grizzly bear.
grizzly
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for grizzly.
Editorial note
There hasn't been a single attack from a grizzly bear whilst the B-2s were over the area.
Quick take
A grizzly bear.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of grizzly gathered in one view.
Grey-haired, greyish.
Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for grizzly.
noun
A grizzly bear.
See also: grizzly-bear, silvertip, ursus-horribilis
adjective
Grey-haired, greyish.
See also: grizzly-bear, silvertip, ursus-horribilis
adjective
Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way.
See also: grizzly-bear, silvertip, ursus-horribilis
adjective
Misspelling of grisly. [Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.]
See also: grizzly-bear, silvertip, ursus-horribilis
Example sentences
There hasn't been a single attack from a grizzly bear whilst the B-2s were over the area.
Aren't they inadvertently being helped by the media (not necessarily US media) who publish the grizzly photos of the victims.
The grizzly-killing lever-action.45-70s in existence today are 140-year old designs scaled up with better materials.
Actually that might be a good way to fight off a grizzly bear, so I'll take it.
But they don't really do that much anymore (they seldom release commons that do nothing like Hill Giant or Grizzly Bear, for example).
No sane person would deny very heavy weapons to the men who come face to face with grizzly bears in their daily life.
And we're not necessarily talking about throwing yourself in front of a rabid grizzly either.
What about the grizzly bears that could hurt the children?
These data-driven screenplay software might suggest that if you take the ladies from Thelma & Louise & replace them with grizzly old men, you get Unforgiven.
To use a different dangerous animal, people have been killed by grizzly bears, yet tens of hundreds of thousands of folks annually camp out in the backcountry.
As the PotUS is commander of the entire military, he could prosecute them with formal charges of insubordination, or perhaps demote a stubborn general to major and reassign him to collect grizzly bear poop on Kodiak Island.
The average man has weight and musculature advantages over Ronda in the same way that Ken Shamrock, Grizzly Pardoel and Patrick Smith have weight and musculature advantages over Royce Gracie.
Quote examples
Like "shark" for VC, "owl" for the PhD, grizzly bear for the bearded Linux hacker, etc?
If you require a grizzly or an orca to "sign on the dotted line for informed legal consent", you are a monster, and you are the one who should be caged up.
That sounds like the infosec version of "You don't need to outrun the bear, only outrun another person." Might be a valid strategy if hackers only had the skills, motivations, and attention span of a grizzly bear.
> Australia being a great place to live - they don't have a slider for "Deadly animals" Australia has poisonous snakes and America has grizzly bears -- only New Zealand can claim no deadly animals.
Proper noun examples
Grizzly engineers from the 70s told me of a way to use a radio to detect stuck code.
Grizzly TV and billboard ads run all the time (in fact I just saw one last night).
Grizzly bears don't hide in relatively short grass and are very rare and limited to certain areas, and nor does America have spiders that bite your ass when you are trying to poo.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use grizzly in a sentence?
There hasn't been a single attack from a grizzly bear whilst the B-2s were over the area.
What does grizzly mean?
A grizzly bear.
What part of speech is grizzly?
grizzly is commonly used as noun, adjective.