hank
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"We will continue our plans to celebrate the memory of hank Aaron during this season’s All-Star festivities," Manfredi said.
From Fox News ● Apr. 5, 2021
Then pivoting that side hank of hair back over his bald center lane and twisting and flipping it a bit so it jutted out in front just right.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2018
My mother twisted another thick hank of hair into a scrap of cotton and sighed.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2016
He sweeps a hank of dark hair out of his eyes.
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2016
He had light brown dreadlocks tied in a bunch with a hank of yarn, and intense blue eyes that shone like high beams.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Krymov is 67, with hanks of pale hair sweeping across a broad forehead.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
And then she let out a hearty laugh and struck a pose behind a Christmas tree to whose branches she had glued hanks of her hair.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2013
"This is just who I am!" she says, those wide eyes getting even wider, hanks of blond hair bobbing atop her head like leaves on a palm tree.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2011
The wool was a fine dark chocolate brown and bound in thick hanks.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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