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frizz

[friz] / frɪz /






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We found the two apes, with their telltale ginger frizz and bulbous bellies, grazing in the canopy.

From National Geographic Jan. 23, 2024

This is the only restaurant I know that crowns it with a frizz of fried dried shredded flank steak and fills it with corn cream, a discovery made when fork strikes core.

From Washington Post Dec. 2, 2022

“I don’t want to frizz it out,” Holcomb said.

From Washington Times Aug. 5, 2021

Traditional plumes might be supplanted by burnt ostrich feathers, hand-dipped in acid to strip off the frizz, leaving the stark outline of spine, as of something fossilized.

From New York Times Aug. 29, 2019

I can get only about seventy-five percent of my hair into an elastic at any given time, and messing around with bobby pins is increasing the frizz.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

It seems chaotic but organised, in much the same way as Tomlin’s wayward black-grey hair frizzes out in every direction.

From The Guardian Nov. 22, 2015

I’d feel like I was cutting off a part of my body that makes me, well, uniquely me, like my long toes or my wiry hair that frizzes at the hint of rain.

From New York Times Sep. 25, 2014

The day's first Frisbee frizzes across the gray sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her hair came loose from the neat bun at her neck and flew in long frizzes down to her waist.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Her hair frizzes around her head in a lovely disc shape.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton




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