Example Sentences

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Born in 1860 in the rural northwest of Pennsylvania, Frisbee was a stocky, mustached man with many strings to his bow.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

An adaptation of Amor Towles’s novel, it stars McGregor as Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, a mustached aristocrat sentenced to house arrest in a luxury hotel in the years following the Russian Revolution.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2024

The newest attraction is set in the world of “Super Mario Bros.,” starring the mustached hero Mario, who has been a video game staple for the Nintendo brand since the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2023

It’s an image of a bear gripping a mustached white man — a nod to Bernie Whitebear, and white people’s sometimes-vexed relationship with his activist work.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022

It was Uncle Vernon, still purple-faced, still mustached, still looking furious at the nerve of Harry, carrying an owl in a cage in a station full of ordinary people.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling