bun
Example Sentences
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On it was a cartoon likeness of a smiling, winking chef with a face shaped like a hamburger bun and, in big red letters, the word “McDonald’s.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The teen is wearing black glasses and braided hair styled in a bun with blue highlights.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
When he gets excited or gestures for emphasis, a dreadlock falls from his bun and shakes with his words.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025
Then a “hot dog,” local chistorra, red with spice and crisped, tucked in a brioche bun and loaded Chicago-style, plated in a cardboard bull.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
I pulled some hair out of my usual sloppy bun, and straightened it, to have side bangs.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
