curly
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The ampersand, meanwhile, evolved over time from a jagged bit of Roman graffiti into the curly charmer we know today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Although the transfer has yet to be finalised, the club teased the signing on social media, external with an image showing Vozinha's familiar curly hair.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
After her cancer went into remission, she wanted to restore her long curly hair and began taking biotin supplements after reading about them online.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
Joseph Jr. — a wiry 22-year-old with a head full of curly dark brown hair — runs briskly toward the goal line with a black cast on his left arm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
His curly brown hair was matted around the sides and back from weeks of being crammed under that hat, or perhaps a helmet.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
The researchers found that the animals had longer, curlier hair, but no evidence that the mammoth's fat-increasing gene had an effect.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
The less evenly distributed the squiggly proteins are, the curlier the hair.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
“It’s curlier and frizzier and I love it,” Kouatchou said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2021
When Alice Dearing becomes the first Black British woman to compete in swimming, you won’t see her wearing the newly created Soul Cap, explicitly designed to accommodate thicker, curlier hair.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
But then her little-girl curls flattened out while mine got curlier, and her features sharpened, turning her face beautiful instead of just cute.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
I don’t recall which of my appeals drew Todbaum’s curliest scorn, only that it got pretty curly.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
Limping, hobbling, they tussled until nightfall, when the Navy goat had to admit that the absence of Shapely, one of its curliest horns, was too great a handicap.
From Time Magazine Archive
Big nose and big ears and the curliest hair at the fair.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
This particular mole belonging to the stout middle-aged lady in question was one of the largest moles and one of the curliest I ever saw.
From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Altogether, this was the curliest family of lions ever seen, and Daddy Leo appeared to be the funniest curly-headed and curly-bodied lion ever seen.
From Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis
