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Example sentences for "makeup"

Lexicographically close words:
makes; makeshift; makeshifts; makest; maketh; makin; making; makinge; makings; makis
  1. He was sweating under the makeup and part of it was coming loose.

  2. Some of the makeup chipped and fell off, but that was less important than yanking out the tangle gun.

  3. Betsy, who had forgotten more about clothes and makeup than most women would ever know, hung around the garment-center showrooms and always came away with samples of next season's couture, usually for a song.

  4. He'd even sent me flowers and a mea-culpa note twice as a makeup after we'd had a disagreement over costs and scheduling.

  5. For Carly's makeup and hair, I had Arlene Morris, an old friend from all the way back to my early days as an AD on the soaps.

  6. Francesco delighted in applying makeup to their faces, running his hands through their hair, and dressing them in sexy gowns.

  7. Somewhat to my surprise, I became quite interested in the whole business of: what's the makeup of someone who's willing to sit on top of a rocket and let you light the candle?

  8. Despite her public image as a hard core activist, Betty Friedan at 58 is a charming, decidedly feminine woman who enjoys wearing makeup and colorful dresses.

  9. Arpel believes that a woman's makeup should be largely determined by her profession.

  10. Complimentary makeup is offered every time a customer gets a facial at one of the hundreds of Adrien Arpel salons, such as those on the first floor of Bloomingdale's and Saks Fifth Avenue.

  11. Somewhat to my surprise, I really became quite interested in the whole business of what's the makeup of someone who's willing to sit on top of a rocket and let you light the candle?

  12. I think women look best without any type of makeup in the daytime.

  13. He sips a glass of apricot juice while a makeup artist brushes his jet black hair straight back and starts to darken his eyes.

  14. Oh, you dress up in funny makeup so you look like a huge ball.

  15. Because I think I've still got my makeup on and that I'll crack it if I laugh.

  16. By the time I remember that I haven't any makeup on I've usually forgotten what it was I wanted to laugh about.

  17. Better hustle, or you won't get into your makeup in time to go on.

  18. I watched her reflection in my makeup mirror, as I was removing the war paint from my face, clad in my two-part, lilac-strewn pajamas.

  19. Her hands were sinewy and contorted and she kept fidgeting, clasping and unclasping my makeup purse, and rearranging a stray curl that kept obscuring her view.

  20. He got up and made to leave when I noticed that my makeup compact was gone.

  21. Black headings and "freaked" makeup meant but one thing--a big story.

  22. In his unsubtle makeup the measure of his devotion was as great as the measure of his unspoiled manhood.

  23. She was the same middle-aged Hispanic nurse with bold eye makeup who was there when they came in.

  24. She wasn't wearing much makeup in the photo, probably to emphasize how serious she was.

  25. She had shoulder-length blond hair, clearly out of a bottle, and a layer of pancake makeup that looked as though it had been applied by a mortician.

  26. Her troubled face had stress lines, and her heavy makeup reminded Ally of a younger Sylvia Miles or perhaps a particularly intense real estate agent, except that real estate agents don't charge in on you brandishing a Beretta.

  27. I met her when I was doing her makeup at the E!

  28. She was wearing a lull complement of makeup and her hair looked like it'd been newly washed.

  29. In all of them she was wearing heavy makeup and the photos appeared to have been airbrushed.

  30. Nina was sitting next to her now, in full makeup but completely unresponsive, seemingly in another world.

  31. Here was a woman, thought Janet, who would never use makeup or any other cover up.

  32. He was continually after her to at least wear makeup but she adamantly refused.

  33. He had in his makeup much of the detached philosopher, like Cervantes and Mark Twain.

  34. The titles and makeup of several of his collections were changed when they came to be arranged in the complete edition of his works.

  35. As for my art-director, he was at first a fool, later a genius; ditto my makeup man.

  36. My makeup editor, as well as various contributors who had since become more or less closely identified with the magazine, were also following him up all the time.

  37. Seen from this point of view the new fashion in the makeup of the periodical literature is a barbaric and inexcusable interference with the process of æsthetic education.

  38. His most natural interest is that of studying the mental makeup of those who chase this will-o'-the-wisp.

  39. Her mental makeup in this respect constantly reminds the psychologist of the traits of a hysteric woman.

  40. Let us pass lightly over the facts that in makeup he is between a Bear and a Weasel, and that he weighs about twenty pounds, and has a soft coat of silvery gray and some label marks of black on his head.

  41. His whole makeup is sacrificed to efficiency in that leap; on that depends his life; his very existence turns on the wondrous perfection of the sneak, of which the leap is the culmination.

  42. Blueblack makeup with white eyesockets is untested, but might work very well, if you avoid a minstrel look.

  43. The ideal is chalk-white face makeup with blueblack eyesockets.

  44. Then they'd land half a dozen of you, with a supply of makeup for the blue patches.

  45. They'd use makeup to cover the blue spots, but maybe it was so far away that blueskins had never been heard of!

  46. For the first time in history the operators of a landing-grid wore makeup to look like they did have blue pigment in their skins.

  47. One of the girls that dresses in the same room with me came in with one of those crying buns on and shed so many weeps in my makeup box that I had to put it on with an atomizer.

  48. One time the maid pinched her foot while buttoning her shoe and what does the prima donna do but bounce her whole makeup box on the top of the maid's defenseless nob.

  49. Then I put a few things that oughta belong to me in my makeup box and beat it.

  50. And the way she looks on the street compared to what she does on the stage, that makeup box must certainly have been of some size.

  51. After the show the whole outfit cleaned all the makeup off except behind the ears and took it on the lope for Alla's domicile.

  52. One movement after the other may be resorted to, some perfectly consciously, others more or less unconsciously, as reactions of the personality, of the organic makeup or psychophysical constitution.

  53. For some little time the pair rummaged around and seemed to act as though they both knew their business, as well as the makeup of any plane ever conceived by the human mind.

  54. I don't believe the cub had an enemy in the world--I'd call that a nasty makeup o' a crooked yarn.

  55. Her brown hair was bed-tangled and most of the makeup was gone from her face, but Beth Danson was a woman who had the unconscious ability to look beautiful under any circumstances.

  56. The woman, whose name Nolan hadn't caught, was plain appearing, with no makeup and her hair pulled back into a severe knot at the base of her skull.

  57. James," said McEwan, "get on to the makeup of the crowd round our lady, and compare it with the specimens rubbering the little Berber.

  58. She was impressed by the high level of makeup and illustration in all three periodicals, contrasting them with the obvious and often inane contents of similar English publications.

  59. But, externally, a Kerothi would need only a touch of plastic surgery and some makeup to pass as an Earthman in a stage play.

  60. For a space of perhaps a minute, the disguised Kerothi general would have to stand so close to the young captain that the crudity of his makeup job would be detectable.

  61. She devoted her own energies to making up the principals while several other teachers, fairly adept in dramatics, helped with the makeup of the minor characters.

  62. Oh, he planned everything for us, even telling us just how much makeup to use.

  63. In makeup Curt Newsom appeared much younger than the forty years he was willing to admit.

  64. Jim Barron, who had rushed from the dressing room with his makeup only half on, helped Ed lift Margie to a nearby bench.

  65. She wore little makeup and her clothing had been bought for wear instead of for looks.

  66. The makeup is the same as when you worked up there in the rocks the other day.

  67. He just tells the bunch a day ahead--just far enough to get their makeup and costumes on, generally.

  68. You can't fool me, though you have got the best makeup of them all.

  69. But you know I have as much interest in the makeup of our crew as Old Put, although he is the man who really has charge of us.

  70. The numerical weakness of the two radical wings of Socialism found striking illustration in the makeup of the congress.

  71. He was particularly fitted for leadership of the government's opponents by the absence from his makeup of the blind fanaticism that characterized the majority of these, and by an utter unscrupulousness in his methods.

  72. Scipio Africanus had more ambition in his makeup than was suitable for or compatible with his general excellence.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "makeup" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acknowledgment; anatomy; animus; aptitude; archetype; architecture; arrangement; assemblage; assembly; back; base; bent; bias; bibliography; brand; build; building; buildup; camouflage; cast; catchword; character; characteristic; colophon; combination; compact; complexion; composition; compound; configuration; conformation; constitution; construction; contents; contrast; cosmetics; costume; creation; cut; dedication; diathesis; difference; disguise; disparity; disposition; dissemblance; divergence; diversity; eccentricity; embodiment; errata; ethos; fabric; fabrication; fashion; fiber; figuration; figure; flyleaf; folio; form; format; formation; foundation; frame; genius; genre; grain; habit; head; hue; humor; idiosyncrasy; ilk; impression; imprint; inclination; incorporation; index; individualism; individuality; inscription; introduction; junction; kidney; kind; layout; leaf; leaning; lipstick; make; makeup; making; manufacture; matrix; mettle; mind; mixture; modality; mode; model; mold; molding; mould; moulder; mouldy; nature; organism; organization; page; paint; pattern; personality; physique; plan; powder; predilection; predisposition; preface; preference; proclivity; production; prop; propensity; property; prototype; puff; quality; recto; rouge; setup; shape; signature; slant; sort; spirit; stamp; strain; streak; stripe; structure; style; subtitle; synthesis; system; tail; temper; temperament; tendency; tenor; text; texture; tissue; title; tone; turn; twist; type; vein; verso; warp; way; weave; web