woolly
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On the Northwest Coast of North America, for instance, some Indigenous communities bred small dogs with woolly coats specifically for their hair.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
A life-sized pink woolly mammoth, Ozzy Osbourne, and an old phone are among some of the subjects comedian and artist Joe Lycett hopes will inspire others to get creative.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
True or, most likely, false, those woolly claims and epic tales of derring-do aren’t the weirdest thing about Marx.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
It’s hard to imagine an audience resisting the temptation to have the enigma central to the play’s meaning clarified, given its prominence in the plot and the drama’s woolly elusiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
She missed the rolling hills and the woolly sheep and the feel of brook water running cold over her feet.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
Vampyrum bats prey mostly on birds they find by smell, whereas the woollies swoop down on rodents they hear rustling on the forest floor.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
They didn't even look that thrilling; ordinary jackets and woollies, hair a moderate length, Mick Jagger had a fairly chubby face and his V-necked leather jerkin wasn't very hip.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2013
Locals in brown overalls, tweeds and woollies watch this enactment of merrie England, when armadas were seen off and men wore tights.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
"Ba-a-a-a-a" bleat 2,000 "woollies" as they start forward harried by the sheep-dog at their flanks.
From Time Magazine Archive
After all, these literary tastes of her acquaintances were no more "superior" than the thickness of her new woollies that she was then going on to buy for her sons' wear.
From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck
In Pixar’s “Monsters University,” they aren’t made of slugs, snails and puppy dog tails — they’re monstrous versions of those ingredients, only cuter, fuzzier, brighter, wilder and woollier.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2013
By contrast, the BOA likes to speak of fourth in the medal table as an "aspiration", preferring instead to focus on the woollier goal of "more medals in more sports than for over a century".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
He often deploys the saxophones in a braided tandem, before giving each a chance to stretch out: Mr. Cheek with his streamlined logic, Mr. Malaby with his woollier line of attack.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2010
At this stage the reader who suspects that the novel is a subversive Australian attempt to prove that its "West" is, if not as wild, at least a great deal woollier than the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scene of this thrilling anecdote is laid in the Far West, when it was much wilder and woollier than it is at present.
From Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by J. W. Duffield
And amid some of the woolliest spring weather in recent memory — drought, sleet, hard freezes, heat waves — my new native plantings are clambering out of the wood chips.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2010
At no event since the woolliest days of the Living Theater has the audience been such an integral part of the action.
From Time Magazine Archive
The players enunciate all too perfectly some of the woolliest period dialogue of recent seasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are too clearly shadowed by death, even in their woolliest, most kittenish moments, to be cute, and they are too seriously worried about the very danger of self-love to be true egotists.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were, as a matter of fact, excellent stockings of the heaviest, woolliest kind, and Whitman had bought them a year and a half ago in Scotland, whither he had gone after his wife's death.
From Tutors' Lane by W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) Lewis
