Example sentences for: makeup

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

  • The girls, rucas (Indian girls) or cholas (mestizo girls), may wear the same khaki pants or short tight skirts, highly teased long hair, and lots of eye makeup.

  • Readers who had recently built or remodeled said their homes reflected their designers' fancies, not their own needs: Counters were too high, misplaced lights cast shadows when women applied their makeup, there was more space for formal entertaining than for family dinners.

  • Among the four pages of rules are these: women must smile and wear makeup at all times, any woman caught chewing gum gets an $80 fine, and then there's the draconian Rule 29--"if any girl gets three complaints, she must immediately resign."

  • Bowery wore scab makeup and pubic wigs, dribbled glue over his skull, slept with a tea cozy on his head, and vomited and shat on his audiences.

  • She was pale and wore no makeup."


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