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Recent Examples of hankThere was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022 In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.—Leo Rubinfien, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2021 If a breeze is blowing, the air fills with the clamoring of jib hanks.—Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019 The Shaker-style peg rack could hold hanks of yarn.—Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 1 Aug. 2012 Open the other days of the week, the Shaker Store sells hanks of yarn, Shaker seeds, herbal teas, and Shaker brooms.—Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018 One photograph from the era shows a woman standing in a village as two men forcibly restrain her wrists; a third man grabs a hank of her blonde hair, his scissors poised to hack it away.—Ann Mah, Time, 6 June 2018 The next morning, the police and Victoria’s parents found articles of the girl’s clothing and a bloody hank of hair on a road near a sand pit in Mahwah.—David Stout, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017 By the time he’s done, the legendary Viennese doktor has been reduced to not much more than a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair.—Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
The areas had large pieces of Middle and Late Iron Age pottery, as well as other cooking vessels and a spindle whorl.
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Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2025
The self-flagellation is uncomfortable and dark, and the instrumental’s whorl of warped voices, sax melodies, and bass lines intensifies the feeling that he is trapped within his choices.
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Pirate Yakuza proverbial monkey’s paw furls on providing a thrilling pirate life and crime simulator at the expense of a more coherent or emotional story.
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Isaiah Colbert,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
Winehouse was entirely in her element, swaying to the sultry songs like a furl of smoke and improvising inflections on the lyrics with aplomb.
Some of them assented to a ceremonial final flight, a last twirl for the cameras and dignitaries, like the Parisian leg of the Tour de France.
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Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
Every awards show, including at last night’s 2025 Oscars, director Cole Walliser and his crew take their premium spot on the step and repeat, and proceed to capture A-list stars doing their best twirls and poses for both high-speed and slow-motion video clips.
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