Modifying Another Word

• completely: Some will sit all alone some will line in pairs, some will be completely bald whilst others might have hairs.

• totally: This pecking, combined with feather loss from rubbing against the cage bars, can result in almost totally bald birds.

• almost: Bird's eye view of an almost bald man's head.

• rather: The brow was rather bald, and the eyes bright and blue, which Devine had last seen obscured with a broad straw hat.

• quite: Sometimes they can be quite bald statements which people find harder to take.

• very: A refusal notice under clause 15 will be very bald.

Preposition: on

• top: He was around 6ft tall and skinny and had light brown hair at the sides but was bald on top.

Preposition: as

• coot: I reckon in three years the man will be as bald as a coot.

• egg: I was born with a full crop of hair, he was as bald as an egg for six months.

Modifies a noun

• eagle: Many bald eagles roost among the trees along the side of the marsh.

• bloke: Top bald bloke on the sleeve for the ladies too!

• pate: With his bald pate, he looked like his head had been put on upside down.

• cypress: Bald cypress live IN water, so overwatering is not the problem.

• patch: The sucker is fixed to a bald patch on top of the skull.

• forehead: He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled mustache.

Used with adjective complement

• go: He looked at a skull going bald, on top a few greasy strands smeared over like a bar code.

• become: In a girl the condition has to be inherited from both parents for her to run any risk at all of becoming bald.

• look: The litany, for example, looks bald to a degree in the music copy.

• nest: Of nesting bald also made their where darkness covers.

• feel: For the first time in my life I felt bald.