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pigtail

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as in queue

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Recent Examples of pigtail The actor, who turned 56 this past November, shared a new photo of himself on Instagram rocking bright blonde pigtails and a full beard. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026 Gabi has big brown eyes, pigtails, and a genetic condition that makes her bones brittle. — Kate Wells, NPR, 5 Mar. 2026 In the end, her disobedience—forged in tandem with and in opposition to her tribe—felt unmoored without a fellow-Mitford’s pigtail to pull. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025 First-day-of-school pictures went from smiles in pink dresses and pigtails with bows in her hair, to a child with a spiky, short haircut and baggy clothes. — Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pigtail

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Some of the rest were stuck in water-bottle refill lines, concurrent queues snaking behind small drinking fountains that created a bottleneck of sweaty humanity around the corners of the new stadium.

— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 18 July 2026
Earlier this morning in New York’s always-buzzing Meatpacking District, a long queue of young, cool folks could be seen lining up along 14th street—circling the block from 10th avenue all the way to 9th.

— Christian Allaire, Vogue, 16 July 2026

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The robber is a man between 19 and 30, standing about 5 feet 9 inches in height and weighing 140 to 160 pounds, with dreadlocks, police said.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 28 June 2026
The Supreme Court ruled that a Louisiana prisoner whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved off by prison guards cannot sue them under a federal law designed to protect the religious rights of prisoners.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 24 June 2026

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