cowlick
Example Sentences
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You might be surprised to learn that you can’t comb the hairs flat on a coconut without creating a cowlick.
From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2023
She was wearing a great outfit and had a huge cowlick and very dry, kind of fuzzy, long hair.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2020
Pratik accosted her afterward, smashing his cowlick back.
From Slate • Jul. 27, 2019
His hair swirled out from his cowlick like a fingerprint, as if it were intended, as if it were someone’s design.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2017
She swiped at her mouth with a lipstick, patted down her cowlick, eased her shoulders, and turned.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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