kinky

Example Sentences

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Bailey lets her displeasure be known by having a friend shave off her beautiful spray of kinky hair.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024

In turn, Black women have long utilized their kinky textures as a form of survival and resistance.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

Her hair remains stubbornly kinky and boisterously unruly; it’s political even if it’s simply meant to be pretty.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022

She, too, has seen how, over the past decade, there has been an extreme focus on encouraging women of African ancestry to celebrate their kinky, curly and coily hair texture.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2022

Everybody understood that my head had to stay kinky awhile longer, to grow long enough for Shorty to conk it for me.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey