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
Jones is an odd strain of rebel — not a slick James Dean clone, but a cowlick that can’t help doing its own thing.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022
Craig is no different, his hair slicked down in a way that suggests he’s in daily battle with a cowlick.
From Slate • May 16, 2021
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
He could not have been any older than sixteen, yet he was even taller than his father, almost seven feet of legs and shins and elbows, a gangling, gawky boy with a cowlick.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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