lank
Example Sentences
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He has lank hair to his shoulders and owlish glasses; he looks like he might start shaving in a year or two.
From Washington Post
Her hair is lank, unwashed, and she hides herself in oversized clothes.
From Salon
“He looks convincingly ancient, with lank white hair and stubbly beard, and he performs with the creaky, painful movements of a weary, stiff-jointed old man.”
From New York Times
“Behind the undone chignon, the back of Donald Trump is covered in white lank,” the machine wrote.
From New York Times
As toxic algal blooms in the Klamath basin's main lank threaten the also-endangered suckerfish a month earlier than "normal," water is in short supply and dead juvenile chinook salmon are found every day.
From Fox News
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
