tuft
Example Sentences
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A tuft of hair grew from her chin.
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Mr. Lew was using a crowbar to pry nails from a large wooden box while Ma sifted through tufts of straw and drew out enamel plates from one that was already open.
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He waved a tuft of lint in front of my face.
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Mama’s hair started falling out in big tufts on her pillow, and I would go in her room and collect it when she’d get up for a while.
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Where the curl had been, there was now just a small tuft of hair.
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