Example Sentences

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The young millennial rocked different hairstyles and loved switching it up: a curly Afro one week, two-strand twists the next, micro plaited braids and a range of cornrow designs.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

"My mam plaits it in two plaits so it goes directly between my spine... She has always plaited my hair since so it's kind of a tradition now."

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024

This week, the bakers are instructed to make a plaited bread centerpiece.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2023

She’s a brainy brunette wallflower, a fraying nerve barely held together by tightly plaited milkmaid braids.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022

The other girl had a dark pixie cut growing out, a single braid plaited next to her ear.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake