flaxen

Example Sentences

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He has the mighty flaxen hair of the Norse God of Thunder.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 30, 2018

Nassella tenuissima, or Mexican feather grass, grows low, finely tufted green ponytails that flower into fluffy flaxen strands of 2 feet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2018

She was by all accounts a prepossessing woman, with flaxen, pompadoured hair and blue eyes.

From Washington Post • May 10, 2017

“Modeling is such a dull job,” Nico told The Times, while, the writer added, “tossing her flaxen mane.”

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

When his bowels were empty, Tyrion slipped on a bedrobe and roughed bis thin flaxen hair with his fingers, all the more to look as if he had wakened from sleep.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin