Example Sentences

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He glanced a moment at his mother, 60-year-old Bouthaina Warda, who was braiding his daughter’s hair, then turned to look at the coastal highway heading northward to Gaza City.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2025

Before the game, she was braiding her teammates’ hair and joking around, as she always does, despite the crowd of fans growing to its largest contingent this year.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2023

The next day, as she was braiding hair inside her home, $7,000 suddenly arrived from Pulte via Cash App.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2022

In the 1960s, one of the great innovations of the Avengers’ co-creators, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, was braiding together the plot threads of Marvel’s comics, even when they were still aimed mostly at kids.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2019

The woman whose hair she was braiding in tiny, painful-looking cornrows said sharply, “Come on! I’m not spending the whole day here!”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie