flaxen
Example Sentences
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In recent years, he has hidden these behind a straggly white mustache and goatee and has grown his flaxen hair down to his shoulders.
From New York Times • May 12, 2020
Hair 13: The shining gleaming streaming flaxen waxen goes bald.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2018
He has the mighty flaxen hair of the Norse God of Thunder.
From Golf Digest • Oct. 30, 2018
The hardworking Nassella tenuissima’s upright green tufts turn to flaxen cascades perfect for softening up stone paths.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2018
I felt, looking at her, that I was helplessly watching precious flaxen sand slip away between my fingers.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing flaxen
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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The Downstairs Girl
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