curly
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Police described Noah as white, with curly ginger hair, and said he would not respond to his name being called.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The ampersand, meanwhile, evolved over time from a jagged bit of Roman graffiti into the curly charmer we know today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Although the transfer has yet to be finalised, the club teased the signing on social media, external with an image showing Vozinha's familiar curly hair.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
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
A large woman dressed in green with curly black hair and glittering green glasses is sitting in the kitchen drinking iced tea.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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
“It’s curlier and frizzier and I love it,” Kouatchou said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2021
The product, Soul Cap, is meant to accommodate thicker, curlier hair textures to provide a better fit and protect hair from chlorine.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 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
He was simply the curliest darling, clad in a garment of many colors made of strange remnants and sewed by hands doubtless acquainted with a sailor's palm but unfamiliar with ordinary stitching.
From Sweetapple Cove by George Van Schaick
His linen was of the very whitest, finest, and stiffest; his wig of the glossiest, blackest, and curliest.
From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
