tow-haired
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Three tow-haired boys entertain themselves quietly as their mother takes notes.
From Slate • Feb. 5, 2012
It was sniveling covered with pimples and tow-haired..
From Time Magazine Archive
They knew him better, they thought, than they did Daniel McKinstry, who had grown up among them, just as mild and silent when he was a tow-haired boy as now, a man of forty-five.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
They were very good: all the well-known vision come to life, Dante incorporate, and white as a shroud, with his tow-haired, silver-crowned, immortal Beatrice on his arm, strutting the dark avenues.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Is it the sight of the izbas, and their torpid, tow-haired, sheepskin-clad inhabitants, and the great slushy cabbage gardens, that has rekindled the ashen past into colours of flame?
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
