kinky

Example Sentences

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Philomina Kane, a hair-care content creator who goes by NaturallyPhilo, launched KIN — which stands for “Keep It Naturally” — in response to the lack of inclusive headwear for people with kinky and curly hair.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2022

Her hair remains stubbornly kinky and boisterously unruly; it’s political even if it’s simply meant to be pretty.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022

“Until fairly recently, the Black person was self-conscious about his curly, kinky hair,” he told The New York Times in 1971.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

She, too, has seen how, over the past decade, there has been an extreme focus on encouraging women of African ancestry to celebrate their kinky, curly and coily hair texture.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2022

Everybody understood that my head had to stay kinky awhile longer, to grow long enough for Shorty to conk it for me.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey