manes

Example Sentences

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“Their long, shaggy manes bristled and they went for their quarry like a flash,” wrote The Post.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

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

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2021

Many were emaciated, with unkempt manes and untrimmed hooves, she said, and they often had parasites.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 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

Cersei could have given the prince the sons he wanted, lions with purple eyes and silver manes ... and with^ such a wife, Rhaegar might never have looked twice at Lyanna Stark.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin