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How To Use primp In A Sentence

• All day Wednesday, I'd had two convector heaters in my bedroom so it would be cosy and warm while I primped and put on decent London frockery. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• Time we'd got home and I'd put our lunch together, the afternoon was well under way and so we decided I should absent myself again while Graham dashed round to primp and preen the place and see the visitors through.
• I had spent the afternoon before primping - washing my hair, deliberating over clothes, and carefully applying makeup, all with Trisha's help.
• `Have you noticed," said Thyrza Primp, after suffering a bare minimum of my polite inanities, `what that young man is wearing? THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
• Palfrey also added, in an enigmatic aside, as a further inducement, that if anyone in the hotel had a dog that needed attention -- "And the key to a dog's nature is that they require constant attention" -- he would provide it: would walk the dog, feed it, primp it, deflea it, whatever. Beard
• He estimates that the beauty premium generated by such primping is worth only 15% of the money expended. Of course, beauty pays off in spheres of life other than the workplace.
• Where was the Daisy who loved to primp and fuss with her perfumes and powder? KISS AN ANGEL
• In it are splendid Spanish Baroque buildings, some fading like the ghosts of grand dowagers, others newly primped models of the famed restoration of La Habana Vieja.
• She primped her hair one more time, and blotted her lips once, for good luck.
• Hirsute men from eight countries curled, primped and even blow-dried their facial hair in preparation for the European Beard And Moustache Championship, held high in the Austrian Alps this weekend, the AFP reports. European Beard And Moustache Championship Kicks Off In Austria (PHOTOS)