uncombed

Example Sentences

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They also let their hair grow, uncombed, into dreadlocks.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2023

Left un-sheared, an all-natural lawn contains grasses of wildly varying heights, more akin to an unruly, uncombed head of hair right after a long night's sleep.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2022

Lines are drawn on the screen to determine whether someone’s fingernail or uncombed hair was offside while the world holds its breath to see if a goal should stand.

From Slate • May 8, 2021

He lay in bed, shirtless, his thinning gray hair uncombed.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2019

It was a disgrace that as the girls grew older and even to marriageable age they still ran about the village street and left uncombed their rough sunbrowned hair, and sometimes even talked to men.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck