flaxen

Example Sentences

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In recent years, he has hidden these behind a straggly white mustache and goatee and has grown his flaxen hair down to his shoulders.

From New York Times • May 12, 2020

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

He thought of Sigrin the Shipwright, a thick-bodied, thick-witted man, flaxen hair already receding from a pimpled brow, and shook his head.

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