fair-haired
Example Sentences
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The baffling disappearance of a fair-haired, little boy from a remote Australian farm has been declared a major crime, with detectives pointing the finger at a suspect in his home.
From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026
The 2000 summary document asks if Z3 was the “blonde offender”, a reference to an unidentified fair-haired lead attacker described by eyewitnesses to the murder.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2024
The other was Lance Kenton, 20, lean and fair-haired, his posture as straight as a soldier’s.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
At a weekly outdoor market, Russian shoppers nearly outnumbered Turks, arriving with wheeled shopping baskets and fair-haired children in strollers to sample the olives and haggle with the cheese sellers.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022
It felt to him as if he had just undergone some powerful rites of passage and now belonged to the western mountains instead of to the East Coast, fair-haired college culture.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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