curly
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Police described Noah as white, with curly ginger hair, and said he would not respond to his name being called.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
The ampersand, meanwhile, evolved over time from a jagged bit of Roman graffiti into the curly charmer we know today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
Fox wiped her slender fingers on her apron and let down her curly red hair.
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
The less evenly distributed the squiggly proteins are, the curlier the hair.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
And last year, the International Swimming Federation approved the Soul Cap, which accommodates thicker, curlier hair, for use in major competitions.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
“It’s curlier and frizzier and I love it,” Kouatchou said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2021
There was a knock on the door, and it was Jean, her hair curlier than usual from the dampness that remained after the rain.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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
Is it pretty!" he ejaculated, lifting it with both hands, and bathing his face in it; "the brightest, brownest, curliest, softest, sweetest hair on earth!
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Sarah Grand
It looked as if he had brushed it hard there to brush the curl out, but it was curliest there.
From The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton
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