How to Use haired in a Sentence

haired

adjective
  • All eyes turn as the dark-haired beauty has a seat at the bar.
    Ginny Greene, Star Tribune, 20 June 2021
  • Frizzy haired folks – this spray is going to be your new best friend!
    Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2024
  • For fine-haired ladies, this wispy cut will give you breezy movement.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 July 2026
  • The next day the revival tent was gone, along with the dark-haired girl.
    Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • This gray-haired child has by far the best half-pony in the pilot episode.
    Vulture, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The tall, dark-haired son bent over to bury his face in his mother’s hair.
    Vanessa A. Alvarez, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2026
  • The tall, dark-haired son bent over to bury his face in his mother's hair.
    ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • Don’t waste the prime years of your life tending to these curly-haired, evil camels.
    Graeme Carey, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022
  • Hank is a pale, white-haired man well into middle age.
    Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The white-haired crowd might have been made up of its residents.
    The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The blue-haired woman looked up and caught sight of the waitress.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Their folk tales warn children to beware of long-haired strangers.
    The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • Might there be a place for a certain dark-haired action star in one of those?
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 20 June 2019
  • Dogs with long and curly-haired coats should be bathed every 4-6 weeks.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Dark-haired men got out, stout and thin, a half-dozen or so, and conferred in a knot.
    Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The same man who entrapped the green-haired girl, Chloe, and did the same.
    Kelly McClure, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Kratt suggests that long-haired dogs should be brushed to get rid of that winter coat.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 30 June 2021
  • To the fat men in suits, the balding, or gray-haired, or sleek-bodied men.
    David Rabe, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Eddie Nash was fifty-two years old, six feet tall, gray haired, strong and wiry.
    Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The camera settles on a dark-haired woman in a tight white dress.
    Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The blond on our block has a black lab, and this dog was some kind of curly-haired terrier.
    Daniel Gibbs, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2021
  • All the long-haired former keeper wanted to do was take care of the cats.
    Gina Vaynshteyn, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The flaxen-haired doyenne held a high tea in his honor the evening prior.
    Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Captain Ahab seemed to have captured the white-haired whale.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 22 June 2026
  • On the other side of the pool, a white-haired man vacated his lounger.
    Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The gray-haired therapist tried to find the root cause in her childhood.
    Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • This woman was running with two curly-haired dogs held tightly against her.
    Time Photo Department, Time, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The senior sub on the desk was a smoothly silver-haired gent of the old school.
    Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The long brown-haired pup loves playing with Kylie's other dogs.
    Sydni Ellis, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Cronkite is a domestic, short-haired black and white male cat about 1-year-old.
    Adam Schwager, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022

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