braid

Poised on a colorful, carpeted platform in a gleaming leotard, with a hefty brown braid of hair falling over one shoulder, Folan would spend her program reaching, bending, breathing and twisting her limbs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

“I’ll do a long twist of lemon, lime and either orange or grapefruit and braid them together, like you’re braiding hair,” Caporale says.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

Those are the two pieces that braid together so nicely.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2026

"I call myself a braid baby because I've been braiding since I was 6 years old," she says, telling me how her family would bond over the skill as her mum proudly looks on.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025

The guitarist has long hair pulled into a thick braid that swishes a beat after he strums the guitar.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Miss Yodle, the family’s uptight neighbor, styles her hair “in tight little braids twisted around her skull, giving her head the air of a victim.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

She also taught the fathers basic hair-care techniques, including shampooing, detangling, checking for lice and how to tie ponytails and braids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

"When I've had my braids when I was younger, people would come up to me all the time and ask and I'd be writing the phone numbers down."

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

In New York, lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require manufacturers of synthetic braids and hair extensions to disclose all ingredients.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026

She touches the braids, the red lips, and moves the doll’s arms.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

They tend to be little, plump, tucked in, braided or rolled up; they have the proportions of toys.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Nepal's rivers cross a sharp break in slope at the mountain front, drop their sediment, and spread across the plains as braided, shifting channels.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

They walk the streets pomaded, braided, wearing strangely arranged hairdos meant to call attention to themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

When they exchange places, their trajectories become braided together through space and time.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026

Aunt Chipo braided her oldest daughter’s hair into a new pattern she had seen in a magazine.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Deep in a braiding craze, the children can’t resist braiding everything in sight: hair, shoelaces, even the tails of the classroom’s toy ponies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Jocelyn Bioh’s high-spirited ensemble comedy, vibrantly directed by Whitney White, took us inside the lives of the African immigrant women who work at a Harlem braiding salon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

A hair braiding shop is more than a salon, it’s a community center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

It was with my editor, Damian Rodriguez, a process of interweaving and braiding those three strands.

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

Still, she finished repeating the Western Union numbers before she continued braiding, the phone lodged between her shoulder and ear.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie