curly
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On a trip to UC Irvine for orientation with her son, one flew into her long, curly hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Otherwise, they’re shielded from the sun under his white baseball cap and his curly hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
After her cancer went into remission, she wanted to restore her long curly hair and began taking biotin supplements after reading about them online.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
With its buttons, chunky receiver and expanding curly cord, it gives a 1990s look with 2020s functionality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
A curly ginger Valley and a brunette Thorn nodded and followed Seven to the desk of a shiny blue see-through clerk.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
The researchers found that the animals had longer, curlier hair, but no evidence that the mammoth's fat-increasing gene had an effect.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
“I love my hair because the curlier and the more strength that you have, the better your twist-outs are,” Henson said with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
The less evenly distributed the squiggly proteins are, the curlier the hair.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
“It’s curlier and frizzier and I love it,” Kouatchou said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2021
His hair had grown out longer and curlier.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
I don’t recall which of my appeals drew Todbaum’s curliest scorn, only that it got pretty curly.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
Limping, hobbling, they tussled until nightfall, when the Navy goat had to admit that the absence of Shapely, one of its curliest horns, was too great a handicap.
From Time Magazine Archive
Big nose and big ears and the curliest hair at the fair.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
Altogether, this was the curliest family of lions ever seen, and Daddy Leo appeared to be the funniest curly-headed and curly-bodied lion ever seen.
From Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis
His linen was of the very whitest, finest, and stiffest; his wig of the glossiest, blackest, and curliest.
From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
