How to Use kinky in a Sentence

kinky

adjective

• She says her boyfriend is a little kinky.
• The kinkier the hair, the closer one is to their Blackness.
  — Natalie Love Cruz, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2024
• Maybe in the hints of Mary Quant’s early use of groovy lace tights, tweeds, and kinky leather boots.
  — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2019
• As more sulfur bonds form, hair goes from straight to wavy to curly to kinky.
  — Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• Ilana’s yet to embrace the full glory of her kinky hair.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
• Not to get too kinky or anything, but, in this case, pain is good.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
• Or take a page out of Michelle Williams’ and Keke Palmer’s book with a long, kinky wig this season.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 8 Dec. 2023
• Spray a bunch in and scrunch the hair with your hands or dry with a diffuser for lots of kinky fun curl.
  — Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 24 May 2018
• Kinky was not deterred and might try running again in the future.
  — Liza Shcherbakova, Billboard, 13 July 2017
• This fact can be applied to curly, kinky, relaxed, or straight hair.
  — Courtney Brunson, Allure, 13 July 2017
• Hair type, from pin-straight to kinky, depends on the shape of the hair follicle itself.
  — Sabina Wizemann, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2023
• Got hair thats super fine, kinky-curly, damaged, or full of cowlicks?
  — Jessica Teich, USA TODAY, 1 May 2018
• For example, kinky type 4 coils may not lend well to a messy bun style like wavy type 3 curls would.
  — Annie Blay, Allure, 9 July 2024
• By the way, this sign does govern the genitalia, so Scorpios tend to be quite kinky, too.
  — Allure, 25 Oct. 2022
• When Gary heads out to find him, the story grows forbidding and a little kinky.
  — Anita Felicelli, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• Don’t part too much hair For those with kinkier hair, their baby hairs might rest beneath the canopy of their afro.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 24 Aug. 2023
• This look is good for those with kinky hair who want to go bronde, but don't want such a stark transformation.
  — Kelsi Zimmerman, Allure, 7 Oct. 2018
• After you’re done reading about ’loon lovers, be sure to check out our full kinky lineup.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 22 May 2019
• Later, some men did want to do more kinky stuff, way more than Ned Johnson; one of them tied me up and gagged me and hit me hard enough to leave marks.
  — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Even men got in on the glove love, with Jeremy Scott turning bondage latex into kinky gauntlets.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2018
• Despondent at losing his lover, a man wanders the streets of Paris and has an affair with her kinky friend.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• From the Russian to the kinky politician, the Vogue editors nominate their favorites among the ones who got away.
  — Laura Hawkins, Vogue, 27 July 2023
• By some measures, 40% to 70% of people might be kinky; given the stigma, this estimate could be on the low end.
  — R. O. Kwon, TIME, 17 May 2024
• The first, hour-long episode was kinky yet empty, like a visit to a red-light district during the pandemic.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 4 June 2023
• The book, which chronicles the exploits of a kinky kleptomaniac, has been optioned for the screen, but has stalled due to the strikes.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• If your hair is curly or kinky, use styling cream to smooth each section before creating two buns.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Dec. 2018
• What starts out as an innocent shopping trip quickly becomes a kinky walk on the wild side.
  — Rose Surnow, Cosmopolitan, 17 Nov. 2016
• Type 4 hair is of a kinkier texture, and right in the middle of the curly spectrum lies type 3 hair, which usually consists of loose to tight curls.
  — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 4 May 2023
• Many of our girls had already begun to question the glory of their kinky hair, the beauty of their brown skin, and the significance of their voice.
  — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 14 May 2017
• Julia May Jonas’s Vladimir (2022), perhaps the most incendiary of the bunch, presents a wife who tacitly approves of her husband’s dalliances—as long as her own kinky appetites aren’t suppressed.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024