How to Use Bantu in a Sentence
Bantu
noun
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Harris blessed attendees with Bantu knots, box braids, stitch braids, and more.
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ELLE,
21 July 2023
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The suit states that on Aug. 20, Weekes-Rivera, 38, arrived to work with her hair arranged in Bantu knots, a style in which the hair is sectioned and twisted around its base to form a spiral.
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Janelle Griffith,
NBC News,
9 Nov. 2023
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The diffuser is meant to define curls or set Bantu knots, while the concentrator nozzle attachment is designed to elongate and lengthen to achieve salon-style blowouts.
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Sophie Dodd,
Peoplemag,
22 July 2023
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His family is part of the city’s small Somali Bantu community.
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Amos Barshad,
WIRED,
8 Aug. 2023
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Wafula shows up about an hour into the workout and stands in mud and watches, sometimes calling out encouragement in English or Luganda, the Bantu language preferred in central Uganda.
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Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2023
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Their female ancestors, meanwhile, were almost entirely local, with genomes resembling Bantu groups living in the region today.
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Byandrew Curry,
science.org,
29 Mar. 2023
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