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

The screens hang above the row of committee members who all look crisper and a bit more self-consciously groomed than usual with their blowouts and trimmed beards and clipped manes.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2022

In the last few months, Hailey Bieber, Billie Eilish, Florence Pugh, Dove Cameron and Gigi Hadid, among other celebs, have taken their manes deeper and darker.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021

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

Soon we saw them—young males with their manes just beginning to sprout.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall