Sentence examples for lank from inspiring English sources

The reasoning behind no-pooing is that chemical detergents in shampoo strip hair of its natural oils, causing the scalp to pump out too much, creating lank hair and a greasy scalp.

(For proof of this see James "Woodsy" Woods, Britain's fifth-placed slopestyle freestyler, whose lank locks would benefit greatly from a volumising shampoo and a little time with a diffuser).

His blade slices easily through wheat-stalks and sow-thistles, but in the lush lank swathes of grass it soon blunts and jars.

His sketch of Keats in the sleep of almost-death, with his sweaty hair lank across his forehead, has become the totemic image of the poet; that, and the death-mask that was made shortly afterwards.Many people could be blamed for this death.

"PALE and haggard faces, lank and bony figures...boys of stunted growth, and others whose long meagre legs would hardly bear their stooping bodies".

Not long after, Hansen, his lank locks and plaid shirt belonging to an age where Kurt hasn't died, straps on a guitar, plays some bottleneck blues and – surely not! – launches into "Loser".

It's particularly great if your hair can look a little lank and greasy with serums as it's so lightweight even fine hair isn't left looking greasy - and it smells really pretty too.

Anything that can make a superstar of a lank-haired, slighly gauche enthusiast such as Moore has to have some cultural interest.

In America she has to take the train out to a salon in Trenton, New Jersey; African-Americans in Princeton being too light-skinned and lank-haired to wear braids.

The rapid expansion of satellite television in the late 1990s and early 2000s brought with it a shady sub-culture of middlemen and computer whizz- kids, many of them fitting the stereotype of lank-haired teenagers bent over keyboards in their garages, who enjoyed the sport of cracking the codes in the smart cards that customers into their set-top boxes to watch programmes.

In comes a fast-talking, lank-haired celebrity who has a ready answer when he's asked why he wants to go into politics: "When I was asked to stand for Parliament, I said yes because it was a beautiful woman asking me," he smirks.