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How to use hair in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Hair means a pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals. Example: “In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.”

Examples of hair by meaning

nounSpecifically, the collection of hairs on the top and sides of the human head, growing from the scalp.

  • In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.
  • Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company...

nounA cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or...

  • Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

nounAny very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

  • Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.
  • I won by a hair.
  • Now listen to what you've got to do, and this time if you deviate a single hair or try any of your monkey tricks it's the deep end you'll go off at.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

verbTo remove the hair from.

  • I took 25 hides out of the Lime with Stephens help I haired them and fleshed them1971, Reuben King, Virginia S. Wood, Ralph V. Wood, The Reuben King Journal, 1800-1806, page 49

verbTo grow hair (where there was a bald spot).

  • The bald patch on his hip was hairing over and he no longer limped.1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, page 492

verbTo cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair.

  • THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton.1937, Dyestuffs - Volume 35, Issue 1, page 1
  • So they did three different sculptures and then ran the masks and painted them, haired them, and sent them out to us.2014, Lee Karr, Greg Nicotero, The Making of George A. Romero's Day of the Dead
  • The winter had haired them like llamas, the sleet had worked no hardship, as a horse paws to the grass, and any concern for the outside saddle stock was needless.2017, Andy Adams, Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings

verbTo string the bow for a violin.

  • The tools used for hairing a bow by various reparimen can be unlimited in their selection.1969, John Alfred Bolander, Violin bow making, page 105
  • To hair a bow, a hank of horse hair (A) is selected and combed so that all hairs are parallel to each other.2015, Michael J. Pagliaro, The String Instrument Owner's Handbook, page 108

More sentences with hair

  • A Japanese will typically have black hair, brown eyes, and pale skin.From the entry Japanese
  • I didn’t have a towel so I just wrung my hair dry.From the entry wring
  • Her curly hair trailed along her shoulders and down her back.From the entry trail
  • When the wind picked up, her hair flew back behind her head.From the entry fly
  • I’ve had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.From the entry have
  • Are you sure you're totally out of hair gel? Could you please check in the back?From the entry back
  • When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet.From the entry coat
  • The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.From the entry wind
  • Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.From the entry bottle
  • He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.From the entry pull
  • Our vegan-friendly shaving brush is made with synthetic bristles instead of badger hair.From the entry vegan
  • He is charged up with enough coulombs to make his hair stand on end.From the entry coulomb
  • I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair.From the entry top
  • The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.From the entry root
  • He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.From the entry root
  • I just coloured my hair and already my roots are showing.From the entry roots
  • Steve has brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on his cheeks and nose.From the entry freckle
  • My date for tonight has black hair, and I'm into that.From the entry into
  • After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.From the entry wild
  • His hair began to bristle with anger when the subject was mentioned.From the entry bristle
  • He pomaded his hair until it looked like a piece of shiny plastic.From the entry pomade
  • A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind.From the entry wisp
  • You look a bit like my sister, except (that) she has longer hair.From the entry except
  • My room is neat because I tidied it this morning. She has very neat hair.From the entry neat
  • Your mum will have kittens when she sees what you've done to your hair!From the entry have kittens
  • What's the matter with Fred? Oh, he's just having a bad hair day.From the entry bad hair day
  • She came in out of the storm with not a hair out of place.From the entry out of place

Meaning of hair

  1. noun A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
  2. noun The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for any part or the whole body.
  3. noun Specifically, the collection of hairs on the top and sides of the human head, growing from the scalp.

Full definition of hair

Questions about hair in a sentence

How do you use hair in a sentence?
Hair is used as a noun and verb. For example: “In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.”
What is a short sentence with hair?
“I won by a hair.”
What does hair mean?
Hair means a pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hair (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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