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
  • All this came within a horsehair of never coming to fruition.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 15 June 2024
  • Dry brushing, thank you Gwyneth Paltrow, with a horsehair glove or a wooden brush.
    Ana Morales, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Monty Lewis is one of just five craftspeople in the UK who still makes traditional dress sporrans using goat hide and horsehair.
    Karen Gardiner, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Some wore horsehair wigs to evade suspicion, and disguised themselves as white people.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024
  • 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

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