pigtails

Example Sentences

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Now he is raising a 4-year-old daughter with the help of Barnica’s younger brother; every weekend, they take her to see her grandmother, who knows how to braid her hair in pigtails.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2024

Dressed up as Minnie Mouse, in red and white polka dot clothes and hair in pigtails, Bea takes to the paddock alongside her vaulting partner.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

When she was 4 years old she met Martin Luther King Jr., who tugged playfully on her pigtails; at 17 she found herself at the Academy Awards, mingling with a bedazzlement of movie stars.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Wearing her hair in half-up pigtails and dressed in a jersey reading “Morocco” in Arabic, 5-year-old Aliae Benazzouza descended to the pitch to meet the players.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023

A little girl with a fountain of beaded pigtails tugged on Vola’s overalls.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker