HAIR in a Sentence

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For HAIR, below is one of 371 sentences:
Then he hastily set about smoothing his hair and settling his ruffled shirt and his cravat which had slipped awry behind one ear.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAIR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hair
 n.  any of the threadlike strands growing from the skin
 n.  a very small amount, degree, as of time or space
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She wore her usual dress of darkish stuff, and there was no bow at her neck; but through her hair she had run a streak of crimson ribbon.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Mattie blushed to the roots of her hair and pulled her needle rapidly twice or thrice through her work, insensibly drawing the end of it away from him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  She tossed the hair back from her forehead with a laugh.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  He took her in his arms, pressing her close, and with a trembling hand smoothed away the hair from her forehead.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  She drew closer under the bearskin, so that, looking sideways around his coat-sleeve, he could just catch the tip of her nose and a blown brown wave of hair.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  She seated herself obediently and he took his place behind her, so close that her hair brushed his face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  Her hat had slipped back and he was stroking her hair.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Her hat had fallen into the snow and his lips were in her hair.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  A slatternly calico wrapper hung from her shoulders and the wisps of her thin grey hair were drawn away from a high forehead and fastened at the back by a broken comb.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  Her hair was as grey as her companion's, her face as bloodless and shrivelled, but amber-tinted, with swarthy shadows sharpening the nose and hollowing the temples.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  His long white hair standing out behind him, he urged the horse forward with crop and loud cries.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  Then he hastily set about smoothing his hair and settling his ruffled shirt and his cravat which had slipped awry behind one ear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (161 in 11 pages)
16  His hair was as white as snow.
17  Choose a stylist recommended by someone whose hair you like.
18  The wind is mussing my hair.
19  She was within a hair's breadth of winning.
20  The dollar fell to within a hair's breadth of its all-time low.
21  At puberty, pubic hair develops and girls begin to menstruate.
22  Take a hair of the dog that bit you.
23  Your hair looks a bit tangled.
24  His black hair gleamed in the sun.
25  The women have lustrous cascades of black hair.
26  She had thick black hair and smooth dark skin.
27  Freddie was an angelic-looking child with blond curly hair, blue eyes and dimples.
28  She was wearing two blue silk ribbons in her hair.
29  I was born with black hair all over my back, like some sort of freak.
30  Both the texture and condition of your hair should improve.