cornsilk

• “Jason is 5-6, cornsilk thin, a jet-black thatch on his so-serious noggin.”

  The Washington Post: Whatever Happened To ... the guy who saved Mike Wise and his dog?

• “Sylvia had said Koko's skin was as smooth as cornsilk, but it was as rough as sand.”

  Fictionaut: Raisins

• “Her hair was blonde, the color of cornsilk, pulled back in a ponytail; her emerald green eyes were clear and brilliant and filled with life.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Thieves of Darkness

• “Noticing the way wisps of her hair blew over the rest of it, light as cornsilk and the color of honey in sunlight.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE FORBIDDEN GAME

• “If you've ever tried to destruct a dandelion plant while doing said lawn chores, you may have noticed that its roots are incredibly thin and plentiful, like a jumble of cornsilk.”

  Cathy Erway: A Green Green That's Good for You and Your Wallet, Too

• “They crop in close to her face, which is looking a bit tired and windswept, tendrils of dyed-blond hair blowing like stale cornsilk across her distinctly unretouched visage.”

  Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?

• “The American models on the beach, with their cornsilk hair and distorted breasts, looked more like prostitutes than she ever could.”

  Fictionaut: The Arab Bank

• “Singers Cindy Wilson (wearing a belted mini-dress and whipping her curtain of cornsilk hair like a dervish) and Kate Pierson (old-school burlesque in hot pants, flamingo-pink ruffled blouse and corset) have lost none of their vocal power, even if they both seemed a little exhausted by the idea of trotting out their 1990 hit "Roam.”

  On the Scene: True Colors tour at NYC's Radio City | EW.com

• “Her hair had returned to the fine cornsilk I remembered from those days, and she was wearing a sailor-blouse with blue curlicue stitching around the collar that I had reason to remember very well: she'd been wearing it one Sunday when she'd fallen out of the apple tree in our back yard and broken her arm.”

  Duma Key

• “Her hair obscured her face somewhat, and my migraine occluded the edges of my vision, but still, I could see: same unzipping of wrinkly boots, same taking off of same baby blue coat with jumbo charcoal buttons, same tucking behind ears of dyed cornsilk blonde hair.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Atmospheric Disturbances'

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