wavy
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Ceuzany's voice ranges from crystalline highs to deep lows, as she performs everything from jazz to slam, commanding the stage with wavy blonde hair and earrings framing her radiant face.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
The subterranean Manhattan version is 17,000 square feet—a massive footprint in a famously cramped city—with wavy walls covered in tiles the same green shade as a Swedish princess cake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Portugal will look wavy in this kit inspired by the Atlantic Ocean, which borders the country.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Because some of the slabs are so wavy, Blackman had to get creative when shaping the wood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Benji had wavy brown hair, braces, and zits and would probably grow a mustache before they were out of middle school.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
September waned, and the laggard rear-guard of the brant and Hutchins geese, riding the first stinging northers, passed south in the wake of the wavies.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.
On fair days the sun flashed from white fleets of "wavies," bound through seas of April skies to far Arctic ports.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.
High in the air, invisible, migrating wavies winged into the south, the distant gabble of their passing falling weirdly earthward.
From Deep Furrows by Moorhouse, Hopkins
We would never have been such good friends," said Nan on one occasion, "if I hadn't wanted to go to your house, Gabriel, to see how your grandmother wavies her hair.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Harris, Joel Chandler
When cooler and warmer waters meet, the sharp contrast changes the air above, making the jet stream wavier and slower, according to researchers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
They say that global warming is making these currents increasingly "wavier", which means it's meandering and not following a steady path.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
A 2022 study suggests the jet stream will became wavier and stagnant as the planet warms, allowing weather like extreme rainfall to "park" over a region and causing dangerous flooding.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 26, 2024
The basic idea, he said, is that the warmer conditions create larger and more energetic atmospheric waves that make the jet stream wavier, with greater peaks and troughs.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
Seven looked up and saw a picture of what looked like Thorn with shorter, wavier hair.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Last year was the waviest example of this pressure phenomenon in 145 years, said Overland.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2011
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