lank
Example Sentences
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But the choice to give Kate aggressively lank, greasy, unkempt hair makes her a lot less watchable.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
Her hair is lank, unwashed, and she hides herself in oversized clothes.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2022
As toxic algal blooms in the Klamath basin's main lank threaten the also-endangered suckerfish a month earlier than "normal," water is in short supply and dead juvenile chinook salmon are found every day.
From Fox News • Jul. 14, 2021
On the field, the Patriots trailed with 2:05 to go, when here came that lank, cool-hand Brady, driving them 77 yards in an astonishing 77 seconds, with four javelin passes to Rob Gronkowski.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2017
Merope, huddled beside the window, her head bowed and her face hidden by her lank hair, said nothing.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing lank
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Let's Go Caroling, List 1
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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