manes

Example Sentences

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“I didn’t want to draw attention to myself,” she whispered, as she passed teenage girls leading shiny horses with braided manes.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023

I petted my horses’ manes one last time and drove away.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2021

Terri had packed them, and we ramp up our final-night party in shiny manes of white, hot pink, psychedelic rainbow and even a green Marge Simpson.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2020

As he wrote in his 1963 poem “The Child,” “Who were the lion men with faces of fur / and manes / who bent by my crib to bless me?”

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2020

Their stocky, heavily built bodies seemed to weigh down the stone platforms they sat upon; and the darkness of the night made their stiff, curly manes look like rows of carved blossoms.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin