Example Sentences

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I’d gotten plenty of looks, with my plastic slippers and hair whose kinkiness I hadn’t decided whether to embrace or fight.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

She thought of a texturizer to loosen her hair’s springy coils, stretch out the kinkiness a little, but a texturizer was really a relaxer, only milder, and she would still have to avoid the rain.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie