How To Use Primp In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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I had spent the afternoon before primping - washing my hair, deliberating over clothes, and carefully applying makeup, all with Trisha's help.
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`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
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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
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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.
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Where was the Daisy who loved to primp and fuss with her perfumes and powder?
KISS AN ANGEL
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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.
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She primped her hair one more time, and blotted her lips once, for good luck.
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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)
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To dress or groom(oneself)with elaborate care; primp.
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Primping today, nails and skin and styling, for an interview I'm doing tomorrow in a Britney documentary! Fun!
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Thyrza Primp invariably wears some horrific creation secured to her hair by a pin.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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There's a reporter who has no idea the cam is on and he's rehearsing and primping and preening.
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You primp, you preen, you eat just right enough to get that bathing suit to hang just so.
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And they are right to some extent - I'm not an exercise buff, I don't starve myself, and I don't spend hours primping in front of the mirror.
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She's always primping, putting on makeup, taking extraordinary care with her hair, her looks, her clothes.
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As one newspaper report put it, “Wrists were limp, hair was primped, and reactions to the applause were classic.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Hap noticed how carefully Umber had primped himself for this visit.
End of Time
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Where was the Daisy who loved to primp and fuss with her perfumes and powder?
KISS AN ANGEL
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Unlike some people I know, I don't need to spend hours primping and admiring myself in the mirror.
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But I think the real culprit behind the "LJ Hates Primp" tip is an innate revulsion I have towards "- mp" words.
NOGOODFORME.COM
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Saturday night, Kara was primping in front of the mirror and nervously fussing with her hair.
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This was Thyrza Primp, wife, helpmeet, taskmaster and terrorizer of poor dead Walter.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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A stupid frou-frou bow in her black wig makes her look like a primped pedigree puppy.
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I didn't get all primped and primmed to have an overfed pompous puff ball tell me he's too good for me.
CNN Transcript May 19, 2006
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Her mouth was of that class called "primped," but was filled with teeth of respectable dimensions.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
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I prefer wearing my hair down and spending my time doing things other than primping.
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To dress or groom oneself with elaborate care or vanity; primp.
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Walking over to the door, I primped my hair a bit and smiled.
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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 ...
European Beard And Moustache Championship Kicks Off In Austria (PHOTOS)
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Their professional neediness and primped vanity spells it out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh, and let me tell you… I already did my hair, brushed my teeth, shaved, plucked, primped, deodorized, sprayed myself with cologne and got dressed before he even picked out the underwear he was going to wear.
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As students primp and preen to wow their favorite colleges, there's one characteristic they can't control: their race.
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Those were the days when you were still a player in every sense, when you had your platinum mullet primped by top London coiffeurs, when you drove round in a E-type Asti Spumante.
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By days, she whispered encouraging words to the blooms that she pruned and primped.
Three-Minute Fiction Favorites
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When it comes to prepping and primping for a date, men and women have slightly different agendas.
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And now here he is, primping his hair, smoothing down the front of his striped shirt just to get the relationship back on track.
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the primping alone took more than an hour
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The contestants primp and preen, surrounded by clucking coteries of friends and parents.
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They showed Long, primping and preening in flimsy muscle shirts that hugged every ripple in the fifty-seven year-old's startlingly chiseled physique.
Zandile Blay: Bishop Eddie Long: A Wolf in Chic Clothing?
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What other creature would allow us to primp, pose and make it the vehicle for our sloppiest emotions?
Times, Sunday Times
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Sounds like to me that Grassley wanted to be primped, fluffed, and wanted his butt kissed all because he thought he was royalty and of, course, a Republican.
Grassley: 'I kinda resent' White House over health care reform
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In the meantime, the review, a fine piece, primps and titivates my fancy, in much the same way that a sorbet readies the palate before the main course arrives.
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There were dykes (and bykes), dogs, flying condoms, fairy drag queens on stilts, go-go dancers in bulging underwear, and many, many, many hot gay men wandering around in packs, all primped and coiffed and shaved and ready to hit the city.
Happy Pride
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See you that fashion that wear a woebegone wording, how, primp as my boyfriend, so fold you old your good ego?
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The contestants primp and preen, surrounded by clucking coteries of friends and parents.
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The contestants, from 11 Asian countries, Germany and France, primped backstage as they answered questions about themselves.
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He could tell Emily was restive, eager to belt on her chatelaine's keys and rush off to primp the cushions.
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Her normally neat and primped hair was now disheveled and arranged on her head as though she'd purposely stuck her head out of a car window on the highway.
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Thyrza Primp invariably wears some horrific creation secured to her hair by a pin.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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He primped and preened for the cameras like a Hollywood diva.
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They start cramming the barricades, the ladies start primping and preening themselves in their compact mirrors.
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Thyrza Primp could not do it, being occupied with moving her snuffy odds and ends to the happy haven of Harrogate.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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(For the uninitiated, "fresas" is a tapatio word for young, manicured, made up, primped, coiffed, fashionably dressed, pampered young ladies in the latest style clothing, with what appears to be 7 inch high heels.)
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Meg slipped on her long pink dress, and stood in front of the mirror, primping her hair playfully.
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She looked at her fingernails with great interest and, seeming satisfied, moved on to primp her hair.
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He fluctuates ambiguously between sexual identities: On the one hand, he is hyperbolically heterosexual, with a voracious appetite for women; on the other hand, he is effete and always primped.
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A thousand shared looks in a life together, they both knew this one: Lena primped and primed.
Three Stages of Amazement
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Varsha was a respectable opponent, but she spent most of her time out of the arena primping and shopping, caring for nothing more than her appearance in public.
