manes

Example Sentences

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From their heads sprout Sprite bottle locks, manes made from electrical wire, telephone cord curls and espresso pod Bantu knots.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2024

“Their long, shaggy manes bristled and they went for their quarry like a flash,” wrote The Post.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

In the last few months, Hailey Bieber, Billie Eilish, Florence Pugh, Dove Cameron and Gigi Hadid, among other celebs, have taken their manes deeper and darker.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 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

Outside, past the open double doors, a hob waits, holding the silver bridles of five dappled faerie steeds, their manes braided in complicated and probably magical knots.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black