How to Use kinky in a Sentence

kinky

adjective
  • She says her boyfriend is a little kinky.
  • Those with curly, coily and kinky hair might want to stretch this to once a week.
    — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Not to get too kinky or anything, but, in this case, pain is good.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • As more sulfur bonds form, hair goes from straight to wavy to curly to kinky.
    — Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Venus’ clash with Uranus awakens your kinky side!
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Go ahead and indulge in your wildest desire through these kinky tales.
    — Jennifer Adams, StyleCaster, 18 Mar. 2025
  • This fact can be applied to curly, kinky, relaxed, or straight hair.
    — Courtney Brunson, Allure, 13 July 2017
  • Got hair thats super fine, kinky-curly, damaged, or full of cowlicks?
    — Jessica Teich, USA TODAY, 1 May 2018
  • Kinky was not deterred and might try running again in the future.
    — Liza Shcherbakova, Billboard, 13 July 2017
  • Something kinky and nasty that won’t leave a hint of regret the next morning.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Spray a bunch in and scrunch the hair with your hands or dry with a diffuser for lots of kinky fun curl.
    — Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 24 May 2018
  • After you’re done reading about ’loon lovers, be sure to check out our full kinky lineup.
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 22 May 2019
  • There was always something a bit kinky about Barney.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2026
  • This look is good for those with kinky hair who want to go bronde, but don't want such a stark transformation.
    — Kelsi Zimmerman, Allure, 7 Oct. 2018
  • For example, kinky type 4 coils may not lend well to a messy bun style like wavy type 3 curls would.
    — Annie Blay, Allure, 9 July 2024
  • Hair type, from pin-straight to kinky, depends on the shape of the hair follicle itself.
    — Sabina Wizemann, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2023
  • If your hair is curly or kinky, use styling cream to smooth each section before creating two buns.
    — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Dec. 2018
  • Maybe in the hints of Mary Quant’s early use of groovy lace tights, tweeds, and kinky leather boots.
    — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2019
  • What starts out as an innocent shopping trip quickly becomes a kinky walk on the wild side.
    — Rose Surnow, Cosmopolitan, 17 Nov. 2016
  • When Gary heads out to find him, the story grows forbidding and a little kinky.
    — Anita Felicelli, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Racist beauty standards have long compelled girls and women with kinky hair to straighten it.
    — Ronnie Cohen, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Don’t part too much hair For those with kinkier hair, their baby hairs might rest beneath the canopy of their afro.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 24 Aug. 2023
  • By the way, this sign does govern the genitalia, so Scorpios tend to be quite kinky, too.
    — Allure, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Conversely, those with less kinky hair might find these hairs more apparent along the hairline’s edge.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Ultimately, Aikens wants the restaurant to draw the kinky and non-kinky alike.
    — Victoria M. Walker, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 May 2026
  • All the kinky people in this novel, killers included, are readers.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • The first, hour-long episode was kinky yet empty, like a visit to a red-light district during the pandemic.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 4 June 2023
  • Despondent at losing his lover, a man wanders the streets of Paris and has an affair with her kinky friend.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Whether your hair texture is a fine, wavy, curly, coily, kinky, or everything in between, there is a perfect short cut for you.
    — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Even men got in on the glove love, with Jeremy Scott turning bondage latex into kinky gauntlets.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2018

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