[
US
/ˈhɛɹ/
]
[ UK /hˈeə/ ]
[ UK /hˈeə/ ]
NOUN
- cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
-
filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
peach fuzz -
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells
he combed his hair -
a very small distance or space
they escaped by a hair's-breadth
they lost the election by a whisker -
any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
there is a hair in my soup - a filamentous projection or process on an organism
How To Use hair In A Sentence
- Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk. Savages
- Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
- In her house apron and with her hair a little ruffled she looked younger, startled and then angry. THE WHITE DOVE
- The baby grows fine hair, fingernails and teeth, and the eyes open and close.
- It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
- Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
- I'm sat in one of those chairs with a little side table to rest your notebook on, arranged in a semicircle in a darkened room.
- Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
- But I needed to know who it was so I pulled out a comb and brushed my hair forward a little and put it to the side.
- She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.
