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

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

Roland is always a wacky comic role — it was Nathan Lane’s Broadway debut — but Mr. Escola’s comic-book cowlick and cartoonish conviction take the character to a new level.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2013

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