hairy
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It looks like a hairy alien from outer space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Here is this meager little mustache that someone made me, and I glue it on every night,” he says, holding up two tiny hairy wings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"You can kind of picture them like hairy particles," said Moore.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
As the Washington Post reported before the hearing, Mullin has never served in the military, but he has often told stories alluding to being in hairy situations “overseas” while on “special assignments.”
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2026
Slop’s face curdled up like sour milk, and he pointed a fat, hairy finger down at me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Bumblebees have much hairier bodies than honeybees, making it easier for dust and airborne particles containing heavy metals to cling to them before being carried back to the nest with pollen.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Things got even hairier when Usha’s execrable husband, Vice President J.D.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025
Criticism has flooded in, including that engineering mammoth-like creatures is a big stretch from making mice hairier, as well as being unethical, and that the whole project is a publicity stunt.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
But, like in the real world, when the human stakes rise to a level where movie ethics are a smaller concern because actual life is on the line, things get hairier.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
A few feet away, another shape, hairier, fled the growing flames.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
“It was the hairiest thing we’ve ever done because it was so chaotic and impossible to plan. And when I pulled those seconds out, the sequence flew. It was brutal to have to do it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
She said I was the hairiest thing she had ever seen.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2021
On Monday night, the loudest cheers were often reserved for the fluffiest, the hairiest and the cutest of the breed winners.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
A lumbering, chunky beast clad in a sheep-like coat of hair, it is the hairiest and fattiest of pigs.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2019
Malik has the hairiest toes, and for the last few weeks, his right big toenail has been all black and blue and yellow because he jammed it doing a backflip.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
