What is "close-cropped"

Usage examples of "close-cropped".

There were several huge police dogs on the lawn, squatting near a pleasant-faced man with a close-cropped grey beard whom I took to be Akeley himself - his own photographer, one might infer from the tube-connected bulb in his right hand.

Nine years old, legs apart, with red and blue March knees, stands Walter Matern, spreads his ten fingers, narrows his eyes to slits, lets the scars of his close-cropped head -- bearing witness to falls, fights, and barbed wire -- swell, take on profile, grinds his teeth from left to right -- he has that from his grandmother -- and looks for a stone.

The Director of the Los Alamos project was a spindly six feet tall with a close-cropped skull and beak of a nose that emphasized tapered eyes of startling blue.

The bodyguards were changed regularly, but they all had the same flat, faceless, unapproachable expression, close-cropped bullet head, and massive shoulders.

Space Force himself, had never before seen such a combination of meticulously close-cropped iron-gray hair, stiff face, and ramrod-straight posture, with uniform pressed into dentproof, knife-edged creases.

The only change in him was that his close-cropped hair was no longer black but a grizzled grey and his face was puffier with incipient wattles forming on his neck.

Eilers' lisp, the wen on his left eyelid, the touch of engine grease on the sleeve of his blue blazer, and the brown brogues and close-cropped fingernails that characterized the man's wife, as well as the exchange of addresses over a beer in the King's Arms in the village of Boscastle, in no way made the people or the incident important.

Sir Blays took the centre position, a short, stocky man with close-cropped grey hair and deep, piercing eyes.

Tom turned to see a boy about his own age, weight, and height, with close-cropped blond hair that stood up brushlike all over his head.

Sean was a slender, athletic type, close-cropped blonde hair and a certain slouchiness that betrayed his slacker stature.

A tiny man, less than five foot fourthe yarmulke held on to his thinning hair with kirby grips, a rim of close-cropped white beard, a tape measure slung around his neck, a grubby waistcoat on top of a threadbare cardigan, pins stuck in all over it and chalk dust smeared at the rims of its pockets.

She sported a copper nose ring and close-cropped hair fashioned into tight, glossy black curls.

She was a round-faced woman with a close-cropped head of tightly curled hair, and eggplant-black skin that set off her gold seashell earrings.

It was the face of a square-jawed man - a man with a short mustache and close-cropped hair.

This one was older, probably in his fifties, with a close-cropped gray-and-brown beard, and not much taller than she was.