lank
Example Sentences
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His clean-cropped hair has grown out lank and shaggy.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
He has lank hair to his shoulders and owlish glasses; he looks like he might start shaving in a year or two.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022
Her hair is lank, unwashed, and she hides herself in oversized clothes.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2022
For resort, Demna Gvasalia punctuated his otherwise monochromatic collection for Balenciaga with a hint of bright, beautiful red, seen beneath a flowing polka-dot dress worn lank on the body.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021
Malcolm brought the canoe up onto the lank and sodden grass under a yew tree, tied the painter urgently to the nearest branch, and hastened to fix the hoops into their brackets.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
