kinky

Example Sentences

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Bailey lets her displeasure be known by having a friend shave off her beautiful spray of kinky hair.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024

The word kinks has many connotations, everything from a kink in a rope, or kinky being quirky, which was really the main thing behind it.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2023

But he also sought to give Black people choices in hairstyles, and as early as 1966 began experimenting with what the authors of “Hair Story” described as “a chemical process to turn kinky hair curly.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 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 was slightly out of breath and using her fingers to put up her short, kinky hair into a ponytail.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste