hank
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"We will continue our plans to celebrate the memory of hank Aaron during this season’s All-Star festivities," Manfredi said.
From Fox News ● Apr. 5, 2021
Some people looked at Daniel Jones and saw a nondescript kid with a square haircut, a hank of side-comb running across his forehead in a straight line, and decided he was terminally unremarkable.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2019
Sunshine twisted a hank of long blonde hair around her hand.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2019
By the time he’s done, the legendary Viennese doktor has been reduced to not much more than a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2017
With all of their eyes upon him, Harry reached up to the top of his head, grabbed a hank of hair, and pulled.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Krymov is 67, with hanks of pale hair sweeping across a broad forehead.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
And then she let out a hearty laugh and struck a pose behind a Christmas tree to whose branches she had glued hanks of her hair.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2013
"This is just who I am!" she says, those wide eyes getting even wider, hanks of blond hair bobbing atop her head like leaves on a palm tree.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2011
“They were getting into the cornfield. They brought a good price — two hanks of wool for a new cape.”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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