How to Use dreadlock in a Sentence

dreadlock

noun

• There's a white stripe in her hair, which is styled in dreadlocks.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 15 May 2018
• His dreadlocks had been gathered in a pile at the top of his head.
  — Sarah M. Broom, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• Her short gray and blond dreadlocks sway with each step.
  — Kate Sullivan, CNN, 25 Dec. 2017
• During the argument, the friend pulled two dreadlocks from the man's head and punched him in the face.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• Mayowa, the shy one, had a head scarf holding back all but a few of his dreadlocks.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Richter got an annoyed look and brushed a rogue dreadlock off her face.
  — August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020
• Once was to avoid a group of four young adults with dreadlocks and wearing Birkenstocks and toe socks.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2020
• On the street, a white guy with dreadlocks offered us mushrooms.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 19 July 2023
• Then came the dreadlocks that caused a stir in the staid world of an almost entirely white sport.
  — Matthew Futterman James Hill, New York Times, 5 June 2023
• The photos show a man with dreadlocks who is wearing a ball cap, a long-sleeve blue top and long pants.
  — Doug Phillips, sun-sentinel.com, 1 July 2019
• The only description was one of the men had black dreadlocks with green tips.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2018
• The warrant says video taken from the House of Blues showed Alexander had long dreadlocks and wore a red shirt.
  — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 26 May 2017
• The only movement is his coat, a tangle of tawny dreadlocks that ripples and waves in the stiff wind.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 21 Feb. 2020
• The students at my school mocked my siblings and me because of our dreadlocks.
  — Safiya Sinclair and Nicole Dennis-Benn, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2023
• Darryl George's dreadlocks are braided and wrapped up on top of his head.
  — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024
• The point guard was slow and small, that mound of dreadlocks notwithstanding.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• The school claimed that the length of his dreadlocks violated their dress and grooming code.
  — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Patricia wears a tank top and has her dreadlocks half up.
  — Mallika Rao, The Atlantic, 9 July 2017
• Zsa Zsa bested a terrier with dreadlocks named Scamp to take home the win.
  — Alix Langone, Time, 10 July 2018
• With his dreadlocks coated in traces of blond swinging from the back of his helmet, Yolas is always on the move.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• At 68, bearded and with dreadlocks stretching past his knees, the singer has never been busier.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• Whoopi Goldberg dropped one of her dreadlocks into the cement in 1995.
  — Washington Post, 18 May 2017
• In 2015, Aldean dressed as Lil Wayne for Halloween, wearing blackface and a wig of long black dreadlocks.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
• The tool spun Robinson’s curly hair into tiny dreadlocks.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2018
• Fans now wear gold teeth to the Superdome, fake dreadlocks on their heads, bull nose rings in their septa.
  — NOLA.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• That means those kind of crusty hippie white girls that are liberals can't do the dreadlocks with the Rasta thing.
  — Fox News, 2 May 2018
• The man is described as Black with short dreadlocks and was sporting a light mustache and goatee.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Court records say Ware has been held in Bossier Parish, where he has been allowed to keep his dreadlocks during the appeal.
  — Kevin McGill, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
• But a blond man with dreadlocks in the video closely resembled one of the flamingo assailants.
  — Angel Jennings, latimes.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• The perv — who has dreadlocks and wore a backpack with a Puerto Rican flag tied to it — fled on foot, according to law enforcement.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024