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

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

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

Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their grey coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien