hank
Example Sentences
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"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
Some people looked at Daniel Jones and saw a nondescript kid with a square haircut, a hank of side-comb running across his forehead in a straight line, and decided he was terminally unremarkable.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2019
By the time he’s done, the legendary Viennese doktor has been reduced to not much more than a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair.
From Slate • Sep. 5, 2017
My mother twisted another thick hank of hair into a scrap of cotton and sighed.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2016
Another banner showed a white man that was wide as a barn holding hands with a white woman that waren’t much more than a stick with a hank of yellow hair on top.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Vocabulary lists containing hank
"The Ravine," Vocabulary from the short story
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