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How to use hairdresser in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Hairdresser means a person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession. Example: “I went to the hairdresser for a trim but came back nearly bald.”

More sentences with hairdresser

  • I went to the hairdresser for a trim but came back nearly bald.From the entry trim
  • I asked the hairdresser not to overcurl my hair like last time.From the entry overcurl
  • Another day, the magic wind came and switcherooed Katie into a hairdresser named Sparkle.2013, Nancy Krulik, All's Fair, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry switcheroo
  • A lot of hairdressers don’t consider what the client looks like.2011 June, Olivia Wakefield, quoting Ian Carmichael, “Cut Above the Rest”, in Lorraine Crighton-Smith, editor, SW, number 264, London…. From the entry blow-dry
  • I helped organize a sit-down outside an Oxford hairdressers' shop that refused black female customers.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 108. From the entry sit-down
  • Melissa is a vicenarian at twenty-one years of age and a hairdresser.2009, Iggy Pintado, Connection Generation, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry vicenarian
  • Rain or humidity could mess up your ’do, so you’ve got to keep a hairdresser close by!2009, Perez Hilton, Jared Shapiro, Red Carpet Suicide: A Survival Guide on Keeping Up with the Hiltons, Celebra, →ISBN. From the entry 'do
  • Before you incorporate current trends into your ’do, talk to your hairdresser.2001, Stephanie Pedersen, K-I-S-S Beauty, DK Publishing, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry 'do
  • We’ve also come early in the evening to give the hairdressers time to concentrate on themselves.2001, Isabella Tree, Sliced Iguana: Travels in Unknown Mexico, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry blow-drier
  • Mr Kernan halted and preened himself before the sloping mirror of Peter Kennedy, hairdresser.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry preen
  • Cassandra a woman in her late 60’s was a hairdresser and owner of her own beauty salon in the UK.2019, Emma Fàbrega-Domènech, "Problematizing the ‘Good Life’ on the Costa del Sol: Detecting Diversity in Privileged Experiences of…. From the entry break the wheel
  • She Snapchatted me all the details from the hairdresser, including a selfie of her crying when the job was totally done.2017, Norah Olson, “5/6, afternoon”, in Before Now, New York, N.Y.: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry snapchat
  • A first class lady’s maid is required to be a hairdresser, a good packer and an expert needlewoman.1922, Emily Post, chapter 12, in Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home. From the entry lady's maid
  • The truth was I’d met a couple of hairdressers in Long Beach at this time and decided I wanted to become a hair burner.1964, Kate Marlowe (as Kenneth Marlowe), chapter 2, in Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam, page 55. From the entry hairburner
  • C’mon, Fangmei Wu, you know that I know what’s going on, what kind of services are being provided behind the closed doors of hairdressers’, beauty salons, and massage parlors.2009, Shouhua Qi, “The Evidence”, in Love Me, Love My Dog and Other Stories, English Chinese Bilingual Edition, Southington, Conn.…. From the entry hairdresser's
  • I can tell you that in three cities in New Mexico there were enough hairdressers trained to hairdress in 16 States the size of New Mexico.1993, United States, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Fiscal, Economic, and Social…. From the entry hairdress
  • When it became apparent that the hairdresser could not meet his substantial vigorish payments, he was pressed into service as a "fingerman" for a burglary ring.1976, “The Loan-Shark Racket”, in Ianni, Francis A. J., Reuss-Ianni, Elizabeth, editors, The Crime Society, page 217. From the entry vigorish

Meaning of hairdresser

  1. noun A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

Full definition of hairdresser

Questions about hairdresser in a sentence

How do you use hairdresser in a sentence?
Hairdresser is used as a noun. For example: “I went to the hairdresser for a trim but came back nearly bald.”
What is a short sentence with hairdresser?
“A lot of hairdressers don’t consider what the client looks like.”
What does hairdresser mean?
Hairdresser means a person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hairdresser (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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