Recent Examples on the WebHis dark hair and slight stubble complemented his striking blue eyes. Carrie Pyle Lawrence, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022 Suárez looks like central casting’s version of a race car driver at a cockpit-friendly 5-foot-9 and 166 pounds, with intense brown eyes and an angular face covered in scruffy stubble.Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022 As suggested by the facial stubble, Asghari's Sergeant Tobias is roguishly trigger-happy and eager to take out Friar, whom Tobias believes is setting off bombs in the city. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022 Golden wheat stood ripe in some strips and in others it had been shorn down to its bright stubble. Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022 The itchy stubble, the irritation, the nicks and cuts - no wonder beards have become trendy in recent years! Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2022 More subsidies for disposing of rice stubble without setting them ablaze, a yearly practice that’s blamed for contributing to the air pollution that blankets New Delhi.Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021 The product’s rich lather softens the stubble so that the razor shaves closer. Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022 The lack of stubble on Rock's face in the supposedly high-quality picture also indicates that it was manipulated. Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English stuble, from Anglo-French estuble, from Latin stupula stalk, straw, alteration of stipula — more at stipule