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  • adjective showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

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Examples

  • Encouraging the animals, known as gray-headed flying foxes, to leave some of Sydney's prime waterfront real estate is proving difficult.

    In Sydney, Unwanted Guests Urged to Find New Belfry David Winning 2011

  • "When I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me," the Psalmist wrote, "until I declare Your strength to this generation."

    Larry Ross: At Home With Billy Graham On His 93rd Birthday Larry Ross 2011

  • Now, gray-headed flying foxes are a protected species in Australia due to the loss of habitats, and moving them requires government approval.

    In Sydney, Unwanted Guests Urged to Find New Belfry David Winning 2011

  • "When I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me," the Psalmist wrote, "until I declare Your strength to this generation."

    Larry Ross: At Home With Billy Graham On His 93rd Birthday Larry Ross 2011

  • He ended by sitting on the end of the bed of a gray-headed man who owns three titles and whose word is law between the borders of a province.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • They await Hardman Pool, a gray-headed and bearded haole who is patriarch over Koolau ranchlands, has fourteen adult children, countless grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

    “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.” 2008

  • “They cut school, they hung out... until one day they were gray-headed, no teeth in their mouth, and the young guy that everybody thought was cool was just an old bum on his way to old bumblehood.”

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • He ignored him so pointedly that eventually Crassus stamped off in a rage, leaving a dozen or so gray-headed senators gathered around Nepos.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Common winter residents are the pink-sided junco, Shufeldt's junco, gray-headed junco, red-backed junco, Rocky Mountain nuthatch, mountain bluebird, robin, and Steller's jay.

    Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Bailey) 2009

  • He watched them, as everything seemed to accelerate in time, noting one was the lanky, gray-headed older guy, a Mr. Swagger Pap said, who had been their quarry so many times before and who Pap said killed Carmody and B.J. The other, a beefier guy, police beef in a suit with a thatch of hair, who was talking into a phone.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

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