curly
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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
Williams embraced the nickname “Curly,” given to him by a fellow student in response to his curly red hair, and quickly created his own jazz band with classmates.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
There was also an image of the back of Cucurella's distinctive curly hair.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
The home page features a model who bears a resemblance to Kelly—but with a curly mop of hair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
He had lots of curly gray hair and a big wide nose, and he was very friendly.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
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
His linen was of the very whitest, finest, and stiffest; his wig of the glossiest, blackest, and curliest.
From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles
Altogether, this was the curliest family of lions ever seen, and Daddy Leo appeared to be the funniest curly-headed and curly-bodied lion ever seen.
From Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by Griffis, William Elliot
