Haired

//hɛəd//

"Haired" in a Sentence (12 examples)

It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards.

He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer.

Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.

He had never walked anywhere arm-in-arm with Colonel Wallis (who was a fine military figure, though sandy-haired) without observing that every woman's eye was upon him; every woman's eye was sure to be upon Colonel Wallis.

Mr Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man, of a bulky figure and an easy temper […]

At half-past six the sun settled down upon the levels, with the aspect of a great forge in the heavens, and presently a monstrous pumpkin-like moon arose on the other hand. The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it.

1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145, Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.

He was a tiny wiry-haired fellow with a pale, sharp-featured face and restless movements.

A clean-shaven, close-haired saint was an anomaly.

Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls.

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Remember the Furies, / The snake-haired, dreadful sisters / Who climb from the hell of conscience / Whirling their torches.

She was a raven-haired beauty.

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