hank
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And then Ozzy grabbed a hank of his shoulder-length brown-and-pink hair and shouted:
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
"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
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
My mother twisted another thick hank of hair into a scrap of cotton and sighed.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2016
We have never, in the history of the hank, seen such a thorough proposal.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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
He hanks his team and allows himself one indulgence: “For those who don’t know me, now you do!”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2018
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
The wool was a fine dark chocolate brown and bound in thick hanks.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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