Example Sentences

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They’ve chosen to embrace their inner curliness and gray.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2022

It is also possible, or might soon be, to predict skin color, freckling, baldness, hair curliness, tooth shape and age.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2015

Some villagers will tell you that the hair of Alois Lang owes its luxuriant curliness to a permanent wave.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reddish tinge had vanished from her hair, but she seemed ashamed of its persistent and un-Japanese curliness, and confessed that her childhood nickname had been "Temple-chau," after Shirley Temple.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was nowhere as blond as Vera Louise’s hair once was, but its sunlight color, its determined curliness, endeared him to her.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison