hank

Example Sentences

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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

A work from 1935, “Rope and People, I,” combines mediums—an affixed hank of heavy rope is surrounded by painted images of distressed personages.

From The New Yorker

Sunshine twisted a hank of long blonde hair around her hand.

From Salon

As she demonstrated how the wool locks work, Skinner pulled a hank of hair and braided it with the dreadlock in a blanket braid, though in her own hair she used a simple twist.

From Washington Times

Then pivoting that side hank of hair back over his bald center lane and twisting and flipping it a bit so it jutted out in front just right.

From New York Times