Example Sentences

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The film keeps pace with Elvis' changing coifs.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2022

She was uncomfortable being tall, and the long, bouncing, curly brown hair that has become one of the most recognizable coifs in women’s basketball wasn’t so admired in high school.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2022

K-pop’s influence is apparent in its tightly choreographed music videos and highly stylized coifs.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

The sisters epitomized a 1950s sensibility that held up a standard of unreal perfection, wearing identical coifs, dresses and smiles, moving with synchronized precision and blending voices in wholesome songs for simpler times.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2021

It gives me a twinge of sadness, of missing my mother, to see their colorful petticoats—indigo blue and saffron yellow—and white coifs.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone