1.   The great thick braid of spun metal hung over her shoulder, and brushed his cheek as she leaned over him.

2.   Two long thick braids like ropes swung off her head to the bottom of her back.

3.   Joanna parted her hair, and then began to plait it into two thick braids.

4.   A tiny, fit woman with wide blue eyes and a thick braid across her impeccably groomed silver-white hair, she shows no signs of slowing down.

5.   Jayanti Ravi, a decisive, commanding district administrator who wears a thick braid down her back, was the first to enter the still smoldering coach.

6.   Most had matted hair, including one who could toss out a thick braid like the tie line of a boat.

7.   Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, wears thick braids in the style known as casama.

8.   The aunt had jet-black hair, pulled into a thick braid that was twisted up into a kind of bun.

9.   The thick braids she has worn for more than a decade would no longer do in her new district.

10.   Their thick braids were buzzed off.