hank
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And then Ozzy grabbed a hank of his shoulder-length brown-and-pink hair and shouted:
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
"We will continue our plans to celebrate the memory of hank Aaron during this season’s All-Star festivities," Manfredi said.
From Fox News ● Apr. 5, 2021
Sunshine twisted a hank of long blonde hair around her hand.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2019
Put hank in the big Apple where he belongs.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2016
I am not a skin color or a hank of wavy hair.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Krymov is 67, with hanks of pale hair sweeping across a broad forehead.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
He hanks his team and allows himself one indulgence: “For those who don’t know me, now you do!”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2018
They are heavy with meat: hanks of shredded barbacoa, dark and caramelly cecina, cabeza more a stage of melt than flesh.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2016
The wool was a fine dark chocolate brown and bound in thick hanks.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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