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

The word kinks has many connotations, everything from a kink in a rope, or kinky being quirky, which was really the main thing behind it.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2023

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

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

But he also sought to give Black people choices in hairstyles, and as early as 1966 began experimenting with what the authors of “Hair Story” described as “a chemical process to turn kinky hair curly.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2022

Her lips were full and wet from the water, and her dark hair, which was all wild and kinky from the heat, glowed red in the exit-sign light.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx