woolly
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On the Northwest Coast of North America, for instance, some Indigenous communities bred small dogs with woolly coats specifically for their hair.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
True or, most likely, false, those woolly claims and epic tales of derring-do aren’t the weirdest thing about Marx.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Gnawing, almost unbearable heartbreak acts as the catalyst for a layered analysis of the ways humans — or, in the case of “The Sheep Detectives,” humans and their woolly friends — ache to forget.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
In “The Sheep Detectives,” the woolly ungulates themselves set about solving a heinous crime: gathering evidence, bringing it to light, and even drawing diagrams to point dimwitted humans in the right direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
"We have seaside goldenrod and wild asters and woolly ragwort."
From "Sarah, Plain and Tall" by Patricia MacLachlan
Vampyrum bats prey mostly on birds they find by smell, whereas the woollies swoop down on rodents they hear rustling on the forest floor.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
Locals in brown overalls, tweeds and woollies watch this enactment of merrie England, when armadas were seen off and men wore tights.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
Bassett – an actress who grows in every play – shoves her face between dire woollies like a feral hedgehog.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2012
"Ba-a-a-a-a" bleat 2,000 "woollies" as they start forward harried by the sheep-dog at their flanks.
From Time Magazine Archive
During this bombardment we went on distributing our woollies all along the line, and I thought my head would split at any moment, the noise was so great.
From Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington
Mr. Buck — who looks every bit the burl dealer, with his wool cap and even woollier beard — bought half a million pounds of redwood burls last year and is a presence on eBay.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2014
By contrast, the BOA likes to speak of fourth in the medal table as an "aspiration", preferring instead to focus on the woollier goal of "more medals in more sports than for over a century".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
He often deploys the saxophones in a braided tandem, before giving each a chance to stretch out: Mr. Cheek with his streamlined logic, Mr. Malaby with his woollier line of attack.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2010
Among the woollier samples: Q. How do you make an elephant float?
From Time Magazine Archive
The woolly plush hat shows no change either, except that if anything it is slightly woollier in the Alps than among us.
From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
And amid some of the woolliest spring weather in recent memory — drought, sleet, hard freezes, heat waves — my new native plantings are clambering out of the wood chips.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2010
At no event since the woolliest days of the Living Theater has the audience been such an integral part of the action.
From Time Magazine Archive
Friday was the day to beat all days, the wildest and woolliest in the market's history.
From Time Magazine Archive
The players enunciate all too perfectly some of the woolliest period dialogue of recent seasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet it is history that the old Territory of Arizona in days gone by was the "wildest and woolliest" of all the West, as any old settler will testify.
From Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer by John H. (John Henry) Cady
