ponytail

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Recent Examples of ponytail Anyone with long hair will know the unmistakable feeling of their ponytail swinging from side to side behind them. Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025 Zellweger’s hair was pulled back into a low ponytail with a few wisps of hair to frame her face. Julia Teti, WWD, 30 Jan. 2025 The ponytail should be thought of as a sort of pendulum which sways from one side to the other. Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025 The actress wore her blonde hair in a sleek high ponytail with her baby bangs swooped to the side. Charna Flam, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for ponytail 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ponytail
Noun
  • His hair was unfinished: one side in braids, the other a pigtail.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Asha, her hair in braids, smiles out from many of them, frozen as friends and family remember her.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • His hair was unfinished: one side in braids, the other a pigtail.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Her hair in little pigtails, a little yellow sundress.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The series follows nine-year-old Pippi, a plucky girl with a pair of quirky plaits who moves to a Swedish village following the death of her parents.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • One of my black dresses in silk or cotton, knee socks, Simone Rocha pearly Crocs, a cashmere jumper, and a ponytail or two plaits.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 28 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The aircraft skidded along the highway, narrowly missing a long queue of morning traffic, and was followed by a thick plume of smoke.
    Ana Melgar, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The big picture: Roughly 2,600 gigawatts of project proposals — more than twice the power capacity currently supplying the grid — were in the interconnection queue at the end of 2023, DOE estimated.
    Daniel Moore, Axios, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For the London premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux in September, Gaga—who played Harley Quinn in the film—showed off a bright red and black bob with a mini-fringe.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The star opted for a chic, sleek vibe for her hair and makeup, styling her locks into a straight, blunt bob and sporting simple nude glam.
    Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025

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