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

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