How to Use pompadour in a Sentence

pompadour

noun
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  • The crooner was in a bind, with a bum leg and a pompadour in bad need of a trim.
    — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
  • Avoid pompadours, and stick with scissor cuts on the sides.
    — Adam Hurly, GQ, 27 July 2017
  • The strange pompadour hairstyle is bringing me right back to the 50s.
    — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 28 Nov. 2022
  • And the frosting is this pompadour of vanilla and milk.
    — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Kronz keeps his thick dark hair in a pompadour and has deep-set eyes that turn down in pain.
    — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
  • No doubt Union did a killer tribute to the pop-punk princess with her platinum pompadour and slashed white tank in 2018.
    — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Hadn’t people seen him, dressed like a 1950s lounge act, complete with a pompadour?
    — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Steven, 48, sits me down in a chair and catches me up on the latest hairstyles for Asian men — pompadours and comb-overs with fades.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Dirty hair could hide in a pompadour, but a shorter do that hung free would reveal limp or stringy hair.
    — Maria Teresa Hart, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Jessie does tell us that a pompadour requires a bit of TLC (break out that pomade and hairspray!).
    — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 25 July 2022
  • Also on the bill that night was Lavell Hardy, a 24-year-old New York hairdresser with a six-inch pompadour.
    — Jeff Maysh, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
  • Xiong sports a pompadour and wears a brown jacket, jeans, and white Crocs, with a money purse slung across one shoulder.
    — National Geographic, 12 May 2016
  • Then he was drafted and sent overseas, his pompadour clipped.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • On one stop of the press tour, Tessa donned a powerful pompadour to match her power suit.
    — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 20 June 2019
  • Men, that is, like Paul Manafort, with his dyed-black pompadour and penchant for pinstripes.
    — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The Boy himself Big Boy, with his trademark pompadour, red and white overalls and slingshot, is beloved by many.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 6 June 2018
  • The Chicana women who wore an early version of the style in the forties—the makeup, the tight sweaters, the zoot suits, the pompadours—were referred to as pachucas.
    — Carmen Maria MacHado, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2019
  • And then there was his hair: a pompadour first sculpted into place in the ’50s, now highlighted by two wings of silver slicked back on the sides.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
  • Shoes gleamed, teeth glinted, each ponytail and pompadour shone.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • About the merch: Bobbleheads of the pompadour-wearing 'Big Boy' are for sale, as are cardboard pompadours.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2019
  • Maduagwu is forty-three, with thick braids held up in a pompadour.
    — Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
  • Bob had a round face and wore his hair in a modest pompadour that conveyed a striking resemblance to Elvis.
    — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Instead, this updo has a slight lift at the top, which is giving us some light pompadour action along with the tousled ringlets.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Hooded mergansers glided in the water, the male sporting a two-tone pompadour.
    — Betsy Andrews, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The look, composed of a cropped white tank top with red and blue stripes, and baggy blue track pants, was finished off with a pompadour ponytail and bright red lipstick.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Some are adorned with dazzling gold leaf or an extravagant pompadour of hairy black palm.
    — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • No one looks like him, with his thick pompadour, sensuous, downturned lips and doleful eyes.
    — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • His pompadour-meets-ponytail was fastened with a Thom Browne signature: a red, white, and blue ribbon.
    — Vogue, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Mr. Kim was wearing a black Mao suit and horn-rimmed glasses and sporting his signature pompadour.
    — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The unusual bird had a pompadour of feathers growing vertically from the top of its head.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2020

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