How to Use horsehair in a Sentence

horsehair

noun

• Buff it with a clean cloth and brush it again with a horsehair brush.
  — Peter Martin, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2017
• Bushels of whisk brooms, made of straw and horsehair and boar hair, lie on shelves.
  — Annie Correal, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• But the walls are streaked with water from a leaking roof, and horsehair stuffing spills out of some of the chairs.
  — Claudine Doury, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
• Real horsehair fills out the tail; leather forms the saddle and stirrups; agate marbles dot the eyes.
  — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• Davis wears is part of Rainey’s glitzy onstage glamour and is paired with a horsehair wig (more on that below).
  — Emma Fraser, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2021
• The front of the pads are flat, as is today’s standards, but the printing has peak-and-valley shading that gives the appearance of leather-and-horsehair.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• Judges and barristers sweat beneath their curly horsehair wigs and black robes.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• The spacious living room, with its horsehair and plaster ceiling and walnut walls, now serves as the club’s banquet hall.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2022
• Anna and her older sister, Maria, sleep in a one-window cell off the scullery barely large enough for a horsehair pallet.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• From horsehair plaster to hand-hewn beams, much of the building's early design remains.
  — Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2021
• Think Rick Owens furniture in the lobby, custom artwork in each room, and horsehair sconces in a nod to the Greek god Apollo, who was said to have kept his horses in the area.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2023
• It’s done by hand with horsehair and canvas inside and everything.
  — Vogue, 4 Sep. 2019
• Under the right conditions, the disc, the pads and the caliper they're mounted in can start to vibrate—in exactly the same way a violin's string vibrates when stroked by the horsehairs on the bow.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
• And yet, once again, Zvyagintsev’s touch is light as falling snow or horsehair on a violin.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
• At n/naka in Los Angeles, urchin is sometimes draped atop raw oysters on the half shell, or steamed as a mushimono with sweet horsehair crab and starchy toro.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• These can be horsehair or boar hair, but top-quality brushes use badger hair.
  — Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• The theater has new, state-of-the-art acoustic panels, which replace the five-decades-old originals that Tenorio points out were made from horsehair, chicken wire and silk.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2021
• The cost for the workshop is $65 and includes the fascinator base and horsehair to create your very own fascinator.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2022
• Materials such as cotton, wool, horsehair and cashmere, on the other hand, breathe well and keep you cool, leading to a better rest.
  — Shivani Vora, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2017
• Filled in with chinking made from clay and horsehair, the logs were likely covered by slats fairly early on both to protect the wood and to give a more polished appearance.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 30 Aug. 2020
• Instead of horsehair once used to help bind such material, González opted for strips of fiberglass.
  — DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• The flowers vary in size and shape, featuring anywhere from two to 18 petals, and the hat is made from silk taffeta, silk organza, horsehair, and wire, with a cotton lining base.
  — Morgan Evans, Vogue, 4 May 2024
• Rubber rots, glazing splits, steel corrodes, horsehair seats crumble to dust.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• The wigs, traditionally made of horsehair, are not required in all courtrooms.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 19 May 2024
• Filled in with chinking made from clay and horsehair, the logs probably were covered by slats fairly early on both to protect the wood and to give a more polished appearance.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
• This horsehair brush is an excellent tool to send scattered debris to the bin: pistachio shells, three-hole-punch chads, soil from the succulent garden.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
• The elevator whisks me to the 43rd floor, where a cross section of the mattress has been installed to better exhibit its contents: horsehair, cotton, wool, flax.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2021
• With deep smile lines, a long horsehair beard and bushy pompom eyebrows, another mask honors the form of Okina, a spirit who appears as an old man.
  — Hannah Kirshner Bon Duke, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• There are also seemingly random — and likely not household — products on the list, like bovine semen and horsehair.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2018
• Like all of the company’s products, the frame and mattress are handcrafted in the U.K., but this version uses cotton, bamboo, flax and Tampico instead of horsehair and wool.
  — WSJ, 1 June 2021

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024