How to Use dreadlock in a Sentence

dreadlock

noun
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  • There's a white stripe in her hair, which is styled in dreadlocks.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 15 May 2018
  • His dreadlocks had been gathered in a pile at the top of his head.
    — Sarah M. Broom, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Her short gray and blond dreadlocks sway with each step.
    — Kate Sullivan, CNN, 25 Dec. 2017
  • During the argument, the friend pulled two dreadlocks from the man's head and punched him in the face.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Mayowa, the shy one, had a head scarf holding back all but a few of his dreadlocks.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Richter got an annoyed look and brushed a rogue dreadlock off her face.
    — August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020
  • Once was to avoid a group of four young adults with dreadlocks and wearing Birkenstocks and toe socks.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2020
  • On the street, a white guy with dreadlocks offered us mushrooms.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 19 July 2023
  • Then came the dreadlocks that caused a stir in the staid world of an almost entirely white sport.
    — Matthew Futterman James Hill, New York Times, 5 June 2023
  • The photos show a man with dreadlocks who is wearing a ball cap, a long-sleeve blue top and long pants.
    — Doug Phillips, sun-sentinel.com, 1 July 2019
  • The only description was one of the men had black dreadlocks with green tips.
    — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The warrant says video taken from the House of Blues showed Alexander had long dreadlocks and wore a red shirt.
    — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 26 May 2017
  • The only movement is his coat, a tangle of tawny dreadlocks that ripples and waves in the stiff wind.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The students at my school mocked my siblings and me because of our dreadlocks.
    — Safiya Sinclair and Nicole Dennis-Benn, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Darryl George's dreadlocks are braided and wrapped up on top of his head.
    — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The point guard was slow and small, that mound of dreadlocks notwithstanding.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The school claimed that the length of his dreadlocks violated their dress and grooming code.
    — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Patricia wears a tank top and has her dreadlocks half up.
    — Mallika Rao, The Atlantic, 9 July 2017
  • Zsa Zsa bested a terrier with dreadlocks named Scamp to take home the win.
    — Alix Langone, Time, 10 July 2018
  • With his dreadlocks coated in traces of blond swinging from the back of his helmet, Yolas is always on the move.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Whoopi Goldberg dropped one of her dreadlocks into the cement in 1995.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2017
  • In 2015, Aldean dressed as Lil Wayne for Halloween, wearing blackface and a wig of long black dreadlocks.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The tool spun Robinson’s curly hair into tiny dreadlocks.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Fans now wear gold teeth to the Superdome, fake dreadlocks on their heads, bull nose rings in their septa.
    — NOLA.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • That means those kind of crusty hippie white girls that are liberals can't do the dreadlocks with the Rasta thing.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • The man is described as Black with short dreadlocks and was sporting a light mustache and goatee.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Court records say Ware has been held in Bossier Parish, where he has been allowed to keep his dreadlocks during the appeal.
    — Kevin McGill, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
  • But a blond man with dreadlocks in the video closely resembled one of the flamingo assailants.
    — Angel Jennings, latimes.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • In 2018, footage went viral of a high school wrestler in New Jersey who was forced to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his wrestling match.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Police described him as a Black male with a thin build, approximately 5 feet 7 inches tall with short dreadlocks.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 18 June 2024

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