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
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 sweltering outside, but I'm wearing a woolly hat, gloves and thermal suit, as I'm about to head inside one of the UK's biggest cold storage facilities.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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 laid a dry pinon branch on the coals; smoke curled out of the gray scaly bark like woolly hair until yellow flames burst around it.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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
The shop sells Stonehenge woollies, T-shirts, snowdomes, fridge magnets and jewellery.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019
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
Timesman Frank Kluckholn, guessing that an invasion of Norway and an offensive against the Germans in north Russia was in the offing, outfitted himself with woollies and a heavy overcoat.
From Time Magazine Archive
But once the sheep began to hear and see the stones "zipping" in the water around them, some of the woollies feeling the pebbles—though only slightly—a new problem was presented to the Mexicans.
From The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
Upon beginning “The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild,” the sixth feature in the animation franchise that grows woollier by the movie, you sense something amiss.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
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
During his first term, Chief of Staff James Baker protected Reagan from his woollier notions and helped put many of his ideals into practice.
From Time Magazine Archive
The performance goes on for an hour, growing woollier and woollier in tone, and then dying out in sleep.
From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley
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
The players enunciate all too perfectly some of the woolliest period dialogue of recent seasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Friday was the day to beat all days, the wildest and woolliest in the market's history.
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
