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Recent Examples of brunetThe picture shows Prince William in a car next to a brunette woman, with her ear and a bit of cheek visible.—Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024 This combo of smoky, brunette, and purple hues is so cool.—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023 Cyrus was last photographed at an event in Beverly Hills on April 23 though, newly brunette: Stefanie Keenan//Getty Images Despite Cyrus not walking the carpet, 2023 has been one of her biggest years in her career.—Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 2 May 2023 On the other hand the Kale of Finland looked to be brunette Europeans.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2010 See All Example Sentences for brunet
On the last night that anybody else reportedly saw Nancy, that camera caught a glimpse of a person clad in dark clothes, wearing gloves and a black balaclava, unidentifiable, standing at the threshold.
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Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
Not only did that article form the basis of the film, but Lumet actually took the note and cast Pacino in the role of that dark, thin fellow.
Sporting Robert Shaw’s distinctive fisherman’s cap, flinty and crooked grin, and swarthy mutton-chop sideburns, Gildart Jackson’s is an evocative portrayal of Robert Shaw.
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Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
10 Mar. 2026
Elements of her can be found on Lioness in Zoe Saldaña’s Joe McNamara, a CIA operative trying to save the world from the swarthy — terrorists in Season One, Mexican cartels in Season Two — while raising two girls.