manes

Example Sentences

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“I didn’t want to draw attention to myself,” she whispered, as she passed teenage girls leading shiny horses with braided manes.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023

The screens hang above the row of committee members who all look crisper and a bit more self-consciously groomed than usual with their blowouts and trimmed beards and clipped manes.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2022

But recently she has been inspired by the girls she sees walking around the city with vivid neon manes.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021

As he wrote in his 1963 poem “The Child,” “Who were the lion men with faces of fur / and manes / who bent by my crib to bless me?”

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2020

He caught up four light shields, four pairs of spears, four helms of war high-plumed with flowing manes, and ran back, loaded down, to his father’s side.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer