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    Use "flaxen" in a sentence

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    flaxen


    1. Just as she takes care of her body, she takes even better care of her long, flaxen hair, combing it every morning and every night


    2. Her hair was a beautiful bronze on her head, flowed in golden waves over her shoulders and bounced in flaxen curls down her back


    3. danced to a silent beat, a tall Celt with fantastic hair, flaxen but shaped into an extraordinary


    4. She had blue eyes and thick, straight, medium-length, flaxen blonde hair


    5. “I love you, Hannah,” I whispered, touching her flaxen hair, which was loose and


    6. should have known by the flaxen hair


    7. At least that’s what I called the flaxen haired woman with gigantic breasts, a waist you could wrap your hands around, hips you couldn’t even wrap your arms around and legs you could moor a ship to


    8. gracefully atop his head was what appeared to be a light flaxen,


    9. woman with flaxen braids


    10. She stood there in her flaxen cloak, head bowed in shame at her failure to cultivate so much as a pimple

    11. The kids on his council estate would take the piss something chronic, if his girlfriend was wandering around in a flaxen robe and sandals


    12. The cold penetrated his flaxen coveralls and jacket and chilled his feet in their rubber boots


    13. Fetid foul air penetrated the flaxen masks the two on the gondola wrapped around their faces


    14. no facial hair at all, but the scalp bore a flaxen coloured hair of a comfortable


    15. “I"ll take your plate,” his wife said brushing her flaxen


    16. Her flaxen hair swayed against his chest as her head


    17. Instead, this woman was fair, her hair was flaxen, her figure more slim, even her features were different


    18. This woman was fair, had a nose that was almost hooked and hair that was almost flaxen


    19. Their evident common lineage was expressed in the same wiry musculature and the same flaxen hair and despite Ivan having inherited his mother’s Roman nose, thin and straight, and the father’s being more bulbous and ill defined, the proportion of the features left little doubt


    20. After a pause, he added, again settling the crisp flaxen wig at the ears,

    21. Lorry flattened his flaxen wig upon his head with both hands (which was most unnecessary, for nothing could be flatter than its shining surface was before), and resumed his former attitude


    22. Zossimov was a tall, fat man with a puffy, colourless, clean-shaven face and straight flaxen hair


    23. His flaxen hair was still abundant, and only touched here and there with grey, and his thick square beard was even lighter than his hair


    24. All flaxen was his poll:


    25. Simply to glance at that flaxen, smoothly brushed head, at the tuft of hair he combed up on his forehead and oiled with sunflower oil, at that dignified mouth, compressed into the shape of the letter V, made one feel one was confronting a man who never doubted of himself


    26. "How delightful it will be to have him for a play-fellow! Aunt Isabella sent papa a beautiful lock of his hair; it was lighter than mine---more flaxen, and quite as fine


    27. He took off the boy's cap and pushed back his thick flaxen curls, felt his slender arms and his small fingers; during which examination, Linton ceased crying, and lifted his great blue eyes to inspect the inspector


    28. She was plump and pretty, her flaxen hair tied into a loose bun at the back of her head


    29. He could not be above seventeen, was ruddy, well featured enough, with uncombed flaxen hair, a little flapped hat, kersey frock, yarn stockings, in short, a perfect plough boy


    30. Baroness Shilton, a friend of Petritsky’s, with a rosy little face and flaxen hair, resplendent in a lilac satin gown, and filling the whole room, like a canary, with her Parisian chatter, sat at the round table making coffee

    31. The other, a little younger, was lying in the grass leaning on his elbows, with his tangled, flaxen head in his hands, staring at the water with his dreamy blue eyes


    32. A swarthy skin, raven-black hair, and dark, sparkling eyes under a pair of heavily-tufted brows made a strange contrast to the flaxen or chestnut rustics of England, and the newcomer was soon known as "The Black Doctor of Bishop's Crossing


    33. covered with a mended sheet between two babies, the downy flaxen head of one


    34. Mr Clare, who had volunteered to help; then Tess, Marian, Izz Huett, and Retty; then Bill Lewell, Jonathan, and the married dairywomen— Beck Knibbs, with her wooly black hair and rolling eyes; and flaxen Frances, consumptive from the winter damps of the water-meads—who lived in their respective cottages


    35. Andrey Semyonovitch was an anæmic, scrofulous little man, with strangely flaxen mutton‐chop whiskers of which he was very proud


    36. They did not think of sitting down, but stood at the toilet-table near the window while Rosamond took off her hat, adjusted her veil, and applied little touches of her finger-tips to her hair—hair of infantine fairness, neither flaxen nor yellow


    37. “Distantly,” confessed Ser Maynard, a tall, thin, stoop-shouldered man with long, straight, flaxen hair, “though I doubt that his lordship would admit to it


    38. ‘How delightful it will be to have him for a playfellow! Aunt Isabella sent papa a beautiful lock of his hair; it was lighter than mine—more flaxen, and quite as fine


    39. He took off the boy’s cap and pushed back his thick flaxen curls, felt his slender arms and his small fingers; during which examination Linton ceased crying, and lifted his great blue eyes to inspect the inspector


    40. Reed might be at that time some six or seven and thirty; she was a woman of robust frame, square-shouldered and strong-limbed, not tall, and, though stout, not obese: she had a somewhat large face, the under jaw being much developed and very solid; her brow was low, her chin large and prominent, mouth and nose sufficiently regular; under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth; her skin was dark and opaque, her hair nearly flaxen; her constitution was sound as a bell—illness never came near her; she was an exact, clever manager; her household and tenantry were thoroughly under her control; her children only at times defied her

    41. Her long flaxen hair was coiled up in a thick plait at the top of her head


    42. These experiences were very memorable and valuable to me—anchored in forty feet of water, and twenty or thirty rods from the shore, surrounded sometimes by thousands of small perch and shiners, dimpling the surface with their tails in the moonlight, and communicating by a long flaxen line with mysterious nocturnal fishes which had their dwelling forty feet below, or sometimes dragging sixty feet of line about the pond as I drifted in the gentle night breeze, now and then feeling a slight vibration along it, indicative of some life prowling about its extremity, of dull uncertain blundering purpose there, and slow to make up its mind


    43. Why tell the whole? The blows of the basement hammer every day grew more and more between; and each blow every day grew fainter than the last; the wife sat frozen at the window, with tearless eyes, glitteringly gazing into the weeping faces of her children; the bellows fell; the forge choked up with cinders; the house was sold; the mother dived down into the long church-yard grass; her children twice followed her thither; and the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls!


    44. Andrey Semyonovitch was an anæmic, scrofulous little man, with strangely flaxen mutton-chop whiskers of which he was very proud


    45. My sister was a blonde ; very fair with flaxen hair, quite unlike both her parents


    46. It was a strange face, like a mask; white and red, with bright red lips, with a flaxen beard, and still thick flaxen hair


    47. Baroness Shilton, a friend of Petritsky's, with a rosy little face and flaxen hair, resplendent in a lilac satin gown, and filling the whole room, like a canary, with her Parisian chatter, sat at the round table making coffee


    48. To her, the epithet of it girl," pure and simple, was pre-eminently applicable, for in her the only new features were a new and "young-lady-like" arrangement of her thick flaxen hair and a youthful bosom—the latter an addition which at once caused her great joy and made her very bashful


    49. He was a young man of twenty-seven or thereabouts, a little above the medium height, with rather long, lank, flaxen hair, and with faintly defined, irregular moustache and beard


    50. He was a rather big, bloated-looking, yellow-faced man of five and fifty, with a bald head and scanty flaxen hair










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    Synonyms for "flaxen"

    flaxen sandy

    "flaxen" definitions

    of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown