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Recent Examples of hank
Kim lets out a sob and a hank of Natalie’s hair clings to her tears.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
There 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.
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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.
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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.
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Joe Kloc,
Harper's magazine,
10 June 2019
Open the other days of the week, the Shaker Store sells hanks of yarn, Shaker seeds, herbal teas, and Shaker brooms.
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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.
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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.
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David Stout,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2017
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
There 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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hank
Noun
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Her hair is almost exactly the same length throughout, but the top is slightly longer to accentuate her coils.
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Auto also more effectively removes moisture from the air because once when the AC fan is shut off and it’s done cooling your space, the evaporator coil is able to drain instead of blowing back inside.
Noun
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If that were to happen, that would be what a death spiral might look like.
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An ascending spiral of social change was rendering structures inherited from the industrial revolution obsolete.
Noun
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Visually, the result was a restlessly fluctuating Technicolor whorl.
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Blue, purple, or white whorls of flowers rise above the strappy foliage in summer.
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On July 1, Russian daredevils climbed to the tip of the building's spire before getting engaged, and then arrested.
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The two daredevils who scaled the spire of the Empire State Building while the world watched have been grounded by the New York Police Department and are now the targets of a criminal investigation.
Noun
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Brittany Mahomes showed off a head full of romantic wavy curls created by Nashville stylist Brooke Barloe, who posted a photo on her Instagram.
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Steam rises in slow curls from a shaping stand while local kids climb onto high-top chairs and a Coors Light is passed between old friends across the counter.
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Buffington placed it on a binder and tried to separate the paper’s furls.
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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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Inside a historic church on Park Avenue, two dancers clothed in blue-and-pink brocade twirl up and down the aisles to a string-heavy soundtrack.
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The actress, who was styled by Karla Welch, adorned the look with a gold twirl necklace that was also part of the collection and featured on the runway paired with the same dress.
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Descendants, including Grijalva, placed a flower in a memorial wreath as children were asked to blow bubbles for expedition members named without descendants.
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In partnership with Van Cleef & Arpels in 1962, Jackie replaced the baguettes with 12 marquise- and round-cut diamonds arranged to form a laurel wreath beneath the larger stones.
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“Hank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hank. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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