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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
balding
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a balding, heavyset man
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And it was more than just the light reflected from their balding, silvery heads.
▪ He was fastidious about his hair, which he grew long and lacquered in place over a balding pate.
▪ If these emotions stirred under the stubbly balding crown, Charlie showed none of them.
▪ It showed a large, plump man, already balding but with a pink, childlike face.
▪ Johnny was a show-off - a balding braggart who was later proved to be a liar.
▪ The balding ex-quality systems audit manager stayed silent for a three-minute hearing at London's Marylebone court.
▪ The organiser was an earnest man in his late twenties, prematurely balding with a hissing laugh.
▪ Willi padded round the room with his basket, a balding, rubicund Eliza Doolittle.
Wiktionary
balding
  1. becoming bald, especially having male pattern baldness v

  2. (present participle of bald English)

WordNet
balding

adj. getting bald

Wikipedia
Balding

Balding is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Adam Balding (born 1979), English rugby union player
  • Al Balding (1924-2006), Canadian golfer
  • Clare Balding (born 1971), BBC sports presenter and journalist
  • David Balding, Australian statistician
  • Ian Balding (born 1938), American horse trainer
  • Jeff Balding, American audio engineer
  • Rebecca Balding (born 1955), American actress
  • Toby Balding (born 1936), retired British racehorse trainer

Usage examples of "balding".

His long, good-natured face was seamed with age around the eyes and brow, and his short beard and the curling hair that thickly fringed his balding pate were silvery white, yet he stood as straight and easy as Alec himself.

One of them, a balding man with the gleam of tit-illation in his eyes, shouted at Kerri and Bender as they walked by.

Sio Bibble was a tall, balding man with a sharply pointed beard and an even sharper tongue.

Pat Brennan led him past a balding cuss in rusty black who was seated in the parlor with another deputy.

Another pressure door dilated, and a big balding middle-aged man stepped out, with small alert eyes on either side of a long sharp nose.

The man was short and jowly, his balding head exposed to the frigid night air and a pair of plain, black spectacles perched upon his bulbous, somewhat florid nose.

In front of the gate were a table and chair made of mahogany, and seated at the table was a balding oldish man with a long white beard, dressed in a white satin sheet.

Similarly valuable was the pallid, balding creature whose magical mental manoeuvrings had broken Her long stupor-so valuable, in fact, that someone had taken the precaution of shackling him to Her side.

Today there is only one other customer leaning against the bara balding man in his forties wearing a crumpled and grubby raincoat over what looks like an equally unkept business suit.

Tavarres lieutenant, a massive, balding man-at-arms named Vedro, was on him in an instant, pointing a short-hafted spear at the mans throat.

Jed Ferman, the dark and balding bassist of the Raiders at the next table.

He had a pockmarked, florid face, a drooping gray mustache and a bespeckled, balding head.

His balding head bonked against the hull, and he sank like a stone into the cold green grave.

He peered over rimless reading glasses, a deep crease dividing his forehead clear back to the balding patch that Breezy liked to rub.

It was Uhura who escorted Maslin and a fat balding man into the conference room instead of the usual security detail.