Example sentences for: makeover

How can you use “makeover” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Garth Brooks shocks the world by putting out a pop album under the fictional persona of Chris Gaines, giving himself a radical makeover complete with soul patch, eye makeup and, most startling of all, no cowboy hat: "[H]e looks a bit like Trent Reznor crossed with a guy who eats a lot of cheese steaks" (Christopher John Farley, Time ). The music, though, is anything but shocking.

  • (For an argument that Gore's makeover may be taking, see William Saletan's "Frame Game."

  • Her aim was not to subvert the women's magazine but to give it a makeover, to translate feminism into something familiar to the middle class.

  • And while they're considering a makeover, perhaps they'll deep-six the phrase "compassionate conservative."

  • The last year has been one of Jane Austen's brightest; PBS and cable TV have given fresh life to Hardy, Scott, and all three Brontës; even Dickens got a Hollywood makeover this winter, his Great Expectations transported from Kent and London to New York and Florida.


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