MANE in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for MANE, such as:

1. She shook her mane of auburn hair.
2. We padded the seat of chair with mane to make It'softer.
3. A beauty, with a white face and a mane as black as night.
4. The barricade once scaled had a mane of lightning flashes.
5. He was, indeed, a weird figure as he turned his white mane and his glowing eyes towards us.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mane
 n.  long thick hair growing from the neck or around face of animal, like horse or lion
 n.  thick, long hair on a person's head
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  His hat was gone, his crisp long hair was tumbled in a white mane, his cravat was under one ear, and there were liquor stains down his shirt bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  She was remembering the vital, virile old man with his mane of crisp white hair, his bellowing cheerfulness, his stamping boots, his clumsy jokes, his generosity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  The result was a small brown and white Shetland pony with a long silky mane and tail and a tiny sidesaddle with silver trimmings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
4  The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
5  In those moments, the torn, enraged waves he shakes off, seem his mane; in some cases, this breaching is his act of defiance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
6  He was escaping with his prize when a young girl rushed from the house and grabbed the animal's mane.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
8  Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  A beauty, with a white face and a mane as black as night.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
10  He was, indeed, a weird figure as he turned his white mane and his glowing eyes towards us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
11  Rostov lifted his head that had sunk almost to his horse's mane and pulled up beside the hussar.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIII
12  A judge of horses and a sportsman, he had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun-colored, with light mane and tail, and when he rode it no one could outgallop him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIV
13  A little behind, on a poor, small, lean Kirghiz mount with an enormous tail and mane and a bleeding mouth, rode a young officer in a blue French overcoat.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
14  The barricade once scaled had a mane of lightning flashes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
15  Aramis, wounded as he was, seized the mane of his horse, which carried him on with the others.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
Example Sentence:
1  She shook her mane of auburn hair.
2  We padded the seat of chair with mane to make It'softer.