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Six example sentences with hoary, each labelled with its topic.
The innkeeper in the ballad is hoary and half deaf, yet he remembers every traveller who passed that road.
Literature
Makeup turned the young actor hoary in twenty minutes, and the final scenes were shot before lunch.
Movies
Portraits show the admiral hoary and stooped at sixty, nothing like the brisk figure of the earlier medals.
Art
Her portrait series follows hoary fishermen along the coast, each face lined by fifty winters of salt wind.
Photography
The hoary bluesman shuffled onstage at eighty-six, white beard to his chest, and played for two hours without a break.
Music
The hoary assistant coach, grey since the nineties, still runs the shooting drill faster than players a third his age.
Basketball
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