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Example sentences for "cowlick"

Lexicographically close words:
cowhiding; cowhouse; cowl; cowld; cowled; cowls; cowman; cowmen; coworkers; cowpeas
  1. He frowned, pushed back his cowlick and raised his head.

  2. Sandy pushed his cowlick out of his eyes and stretched as his uncle and his friend Jerry followed him out of the little car.

  3. Into the best of these bad boxes the gig mare was put, and as there was nothing to get in the house, Tom Cowlick took his departure as soon as she had eaten her surreptitious feed of oats.

  4. He plastered down his unruly cowlick with a slimy hand.

  5. He smoothed down his cowlick and then gripped the wheel of the car with both hands to stop their trembling.

  6. He thought, too, that he had mastered, by the stern use of a wet brush, a cowlick which usually disgraced the crown of his head.

  7. Dickie deliberately smoothed down the cowlick on his head.

  8. Thank you," said Marylin, the infinitesimal second while his hat and cowlick lifted, her own gaze seeming to run down those avenues of his eyes for a look into the pools at the back.

  9. Where his brown hair parted there was a cowlick that flung an untamable bang upon his forehead, giving him a combative look that his smile belied.

  10. The cowlick where his hair parted kept a stubborn wisp of brown hair in rebellion, and it shook amusingly when he spoke earnestly or laughed.

  11. Harwood shook his head until his cowlick bobbed and danced.

  12. Once I saw Dan's cowlick shake like the plume of an angry warrior as his wife turned toward him inquiringly.

  13. To put it plainly, Oliver was until the moment of his Great Opportunity a good-humored stooge with a cowlick and a sense of responsibility, whose invariable cue was family obligation and whose crowning virtue was docility.

  14. He pushed his cowlick back from his eyes and struck the counter top with the flat of his hand.

  15. He brushed back his cowlick and looked sorrowfully at the slice of roast beef remaining on his plate.

  16. Sandy nodded soberly and automatically lifted a hand to brush back the cowlick that had fallen forward again.

  17. As usual, he had to keep brushing back the cowlick that kept falling in his eyes as he talked.

  18. Sandy was not even aware of the cowlick that hung forward on his forehead, and Jerry James's brow was a mass of wrinkles.

  19. He brushed aside the cowlick that had flopped over his eyes as he ran up the walk.

  20. The person addressed swung back the rebellious cowlick from his forehead, as if to clear his thinking faculties from a load while he considered the grave question.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowlick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.