How do you use the word "bald" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "bald" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "bald": He talks with the quiet man. Don't you think he's a little bald on top? Don't worry too much, or you'll go bald.

Bald Meaning

/bɔːld/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjHaving little or no hair, fur, or feathers.

adjHaving little or no hair, fur, or feathers., Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.

Sentence Examples

He talks with the quiet man. Don't you think he's a little bald on top?

Don't worry too much, or you'll go bald.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

open denuded

Antonyms:

hairy covert

CEFR Practice Quiz

After chemotherapy, his head became completely ____ with no hair at all.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

My father is completely ____ and has no hair on his head at all.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰḗlH-o-m Proto-Germanic *bēlą Proto-West Germanic *bāl Old English bæl? Middle English balled English bald From Middle English balled, ballid, bald (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare Old Danish bældet (“bald”). An alternate etymology has Old English bǣl (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *bēlą. Compare Albanian balë (“white spot on the forehead”) and ballë (“forehead”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces." — 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

"Porn didn't revolutionize our pubic hair overnight […] but the general gist is that the vast majority of porn performers in film and magazines had full bushes until Hustler magazine printed a bald vulva, a so-called ‘pink shot’, in 1974." — 2019, Lynn Enright, Vagina: A Re-Education, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

"“I am getting balder and balder trying to figure these things out,” he said at an event in Washington, D.C. on Monday where he acknowledged – as he has before – that he would not run outside the Democratic party establishment." — 2015 February 10, Dan Merica, quoting Bernie Sanders, “The Democratic presidential nominee that doesn’t have to be a registered Democrat”, in CNN:

"There has never been a bald James Bond nor a hairless contestant on Love Island. Growing up, bald men were never the superheroes and always the villains." — 2021 March 14, Michael Segalov, “It can leave your self-image fractured”, in The Guardian:

"All my grandmothers are bald, all the way back to Tilly. Grandma Tilly from 1721. Full head of bald hair." — 2018, Jerma985, 3:43 from the start, in Would I Lie to You?, spoken by Jerma985, via YouTube:

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