braid
Example Sentences
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Lately, she’d been weaving it into six braids while it was still damp so that she could have wavy hair in the morning.
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I looked down at Rae Ellen’s dirty feet, her yellow braids as straight as two pencils, her scrawny self drowning in a huge pair of overalls.
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When the kitchen was clean and tidy, Sadako tied red bows on her braids and stood impatiently by the door.
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Instead of pizza, however, he found a table laid with fancy plates, candlesticks, and a yummy-looking braided loaf of bread.
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“The crew said it looks like a nuclear blast. The valley was full of gray mounds ten yards high. Dark-brown mud braided through them … past occasional ice blocks. Three feet of ash covered downed trees.”
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