HAIR in a Sentence

Learn HAIR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
371 example sentences for HAIR, such as:
1. I tie back my hair when I'm cooking.
2. Wet your hair and apply the shampoo.
3. Your hair is sticking out in the back.
4. I'm having my hair cut this afternoon.
5. Her hair was coiled on top of her head.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of HAIR
hair
 n.  a very small distance or space
 n.  a filamentous projection or process on an organism
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (161 in 11 pages)
1  This gel will add gloss to even the dullest hair.
2  I love the squeaky-clean feel of my hair after I've washed it.
3  I'm having my hair cut this afternoon.
4  First apply shampoo to hair and then rinse thoroughly.
5  Directions: wet hair, apply shampoo and massage into a rich lather.
6  Wet your hair and apply the shampoo.
7  Her hair whipped around her face in the wind.
8  He reached out and brushed a strand of hair away from her face.
9  Your hair is sticking out in the back.
10  I tie back my hair when I'm cooking.
11  She said she was staying in tonight to wash her hair.
12  Her hair was coiled on top of her head.
13  Her hair started falling out as a result of radiation treatment.
14  The wait will not be very long, but your white-haired hair collapse hurt.
15  While it was still wet, I gently teased out the tangled knots in Rosie's hair.