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How to use moustache in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Moustache means a growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip. Example: “A cape and moustache completed his disguise.”

Examples of moustache by meaning

nounA growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.

  • A moment later there entered a tall thin Englishman with a great moustache, which was a rare thing amid that clean-shaven race.1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “How the Brigadier Triumphed in England”, in The Adventures of Gerard
  • A hint of the truth broke on him after Sedan, when he saw the dyed moustaches of Napoleon going grey; another when he entered Paris, and saw the smashed windows of the Tuileries.1908–1910 (date written; published 1910 October 18), E[dward] M[organ] Forster, Howards End, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC
  • Ivan, the confidential man with the scar and the moustaches, came out of the house like a cannon ball, and came racing across the lawn to Valentin like a dog to his master.1910 September 3, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Secret Garden”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and...

More sentences with moustache

  • A cape and moustache completed his disguise.From the entry disguise
  • The villain began to cachinnate and twirl his moustache.From the entry cachinnate
  • He was sporting his inky Italian moustaches glistering with Vaseline and perfume.2010, John P. Anderson, Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah, volume 4, page 82. From the entry puh
  • Pudding-like and rottingly sweet, it left a sticky milk moustache under his nose.2005, Jonathan DiMarco, Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors: A Novel of Accidental Discharge, Narberth, Pa.: Zaltys Press, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry rottingly
  • The djoundi with the fat red moustache grunts: "You heard, shepherd: what are you doing here?"2004, Anouar Benmalek, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, The Lovers of Algeria, page 15. From the entry djoundi
  • Preston was a lionesque, tall, massive man, with a generous sized moustache, and beautiful green eyes.2001, Jeff Lenburg, Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake, page 58. From the entry lionesque
  • My father with his Christmas-red vest and braggart’s moustache is boycotting the party.1996, Pat Lowther, Time Capsule: New and Selected Poems, Polestar Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry fisheye
  • He had a soft honey-coloured moustache and the limpid gaze of an entirely stupid man.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry limpid
  • He looked faintly loutish, with smarmy hair and a hint of a moustache.1985, Lynn Pan, Into China's Heart: An Emigré's Journey Along the Yellow River, page 200. From the entry smarmy
  • He inflated his chest, twirled his moustache, and thumped the table with a revulsion to thunderous indignation.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 85. From the entry twirl
  • The upward dart of a droll, pointed moustache has been modern and whimsical and masqueradish.1908, Austin Brereton, The life of Henry Irving. From the entry masqueradish
  • He might assure his red cheeks and sprouting moustache in the looking-glass that that fellow, St.1903, Katharine Tynan, A Red, Red Rose, page 150. From the entry muffish
  • Grants, a crinkly Andrew Jackson that someone had drawn an ink moustache on, two Lincolns and two Washingtons.2022, Douglas J. McGregor, Roadtrip 41, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry washington
  • Below her formidable eyes her fangs are flanked by limb-like mouthparts: her palps, coloured a startling white like a quivering moustache.2015, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time, Pan Books (2016), page 20. From the entry palp
  • He glances up to take in Fletcher’s shaggy blond hair, his tea-shade glasses, and his thin line of moustache.2013, Robert McGill, chapter 1, in Once We Had a Country, London: Jonathan Cape, published 2014, →ISBN, part 1 (Come Home, America). From the entry tea-shade
  • He was neat, he was tidy, he had a substantial moustache, a big disco perm and he was lean and muscular.2006, John Nicholson, Footy Rocks, page 52. From the entry disco perm
  • I have a goatee, moustache, and medium thick eyebrows.2003, Qvmagazine - Volume 6, Issues 1-2. From the entry holla back
  • Worf, villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot.1991, Jeri Taylor, “The Drumhead”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 21, Patrick Stewart (actor). From the entry twirl one's moustache
  • He wore long moustaches after the fashion of teamsters and he wore a widebrim hat with a low round crown.1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 1, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC. From the entry teamster
  • "Five yearers" were said to be allowed to grow moustaches or even marry a wife if such a thing were available.1983, Mordecai Richler, The Best of modern humor. From the entry yearer
  • A tall, athletic, tanned man, his smooth black hair slick with oil, long sideburns, neatly trimmed moustache, Clark Gable redivivus.1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 43. From the entry redivivus
  • With slow, careful motions he entered into the process of scraping off the left half of his magnificient four-year-old moustache.1972, Hendrie, Don, Boomkitchwatt, John Muir Publications, page 130. From the entry nosehair
  • He wanted to finger his moustache, but could not.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 121. From the entry finger
  • A large-bellied, red-faced man with a greying walrus moustache stood there clad only in trousers and a collarless shirt.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954. From the entry walrus moustache
  • He took off his silk hat and, blowing out impatiently his bushy moustache, welshcombed his hair with raking fingers.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 7: Aeolus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 121. From the entry welsh-comb
  • His moustache was very stiff and military.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 21. From the entry military
  • Oftentimes, the funniest tweets emerge from the peculiar depths of "Weird Twitter," a subculture so twistedly surreal that it could curl Salvador Dali's moustache.2015, Daniel Konikoff, "140 characters of comic gold", Varsity (The University of Toronto), 22 March 2015, page 18. From the entry Weird Twitter
  • I saw that!” They turned to see an elderly man striding across the courtyard, his face blanketed in a thick grey beard and moustache.2012, Tom Becker, Darkside 5: Blackjack, Scholastic UK, →ISBN. From the entry wereman
  • Photographs of Murif on the journey show him looking somewhat Hercule Poirotesque, with a neatly trimmed beard and moustache and wearing a homburg hat.2012, Warren Brown, Francis Birtles. From the entry Poirotesque
  • They spoke in soft Southern drawls: We ded this part about this tahm nine yurs ago,” said the one with the neatly trimmed white moustache.2007, Tom Slayton, Searching for Thoreau. From the entry yur
  • Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool.2005 May 14, Laura Barton, The Guardian. From the entry clownish
  • During the applause the singer poured a glass of water from the decanter into the tumbler, drank a mouthful, and Welsh-combed his moustache and hair.2004, Evelyn Conlon, Later On. From the entry welsh-comb
  • He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 316. From the entry corporation
  • I looked for the counterman, seeing him serving a plate of pork chops and grits to a man with a pale blond moustache.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 179. From the entry counterman
  • They could see the small stone house where she used to live, with a monkey puzzle in front of it like a moustache.1951, Victor Sawdon Pritchett, Mr Beluncle, New York: The Modern Library, published 2005, page 88. From the entry monkey puzzle
  • His complexion had darkened, sallowed; his black moustache had lost boldness, become sardonic; there were lines which she did not know about his face.1920, John Galsworthy, “‘Here We are Again!’”, in In Chancery (The Forsyte Saga; 2), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part II, page 225. From the entry sallow
  • The scenework proves unsuccessful when Carmichael recalls not the source of her misandry but another episode of overacting, that of castratively biting off the moustache of an amorous man.2016, Leslie H. Abramson, Hitchcock & the Anxiety of Authorship. From the entry misandry

Meaning of moustache

  1. noun A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
  2. noun A curly bracket, { or }.

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Questions about moustache in a sentence

How do you use moustache in a sentence?
Moustache is used as a noun. For example: “A cape and moustache completed his disguise.”
What is a short sentence with moustache?
“A cape and moustache completed his disguise.”
What does moustache mean?
Moustache means a growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.

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