Example Sentences

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Bryant looked back at the 5-foot-10, 165-pound, tow-headed 18-year-old and said, “You’ll never play Division 1 football. You need to go somewhere else.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

“I did not,” the pale tow-headed fellow said.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2018

Some might say love varies in its degrees - that the love one has for a spouse cannot compare to the love between a tow-headed child and his pretend dinosaur.

From Washington Times • Feb. 14, 2018

Two tow-headed children, waiting by the reception desk with their parents, stared at his gold chain.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 4, 2016

Not only twins, mind you, but also a tow-headed toddler, whose skin seemed too thin, for she wailed at the slightest discomfort.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver