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How to use pimple in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, verb

Pimple means an inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus. Example: “I had to pop that embarrassing pimple, it was huge and red and on the tip of my nose.”

Examples of pimple by meaning

nounAn inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.

  • I had to pop that embarrassing pimple, it was huge and red and on the tip of my nose.

More sentences with pimple

  • Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.From the entry needle
  • “But it's cuuute!” Emily once called a pimple “cuuute,” so Zoe wasn't reassured.2017, Sally Hepworth, The Mother's Promise: A Novel, page 30. From the entry cuuute
  • Fourteen years old, dressed from head to toe in camouflage gear, with a Stallonesque headband and pimples.2012, Tom Holt, Djinn Rummy, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry Stallonesque
  • Chacne is the name for pimples on the chest; bacne, the name for pimples on the back.[2002, Nick McDonell, Twelve, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry chacne
  • High school locker rooms smell from sweat, mildew, roachicide, and pimple cream.1996, Charley Rosen, The House of Moses All-Stars, Seven Stories Press, page 244. From the entry roachicide
  • Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm.1966 [1961], William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy), New York: Grove Press, page 7. From the entry junk
  • The men were either fat and middle-aged or young and scrawny with a fine display of pimples.1946, Patrick Quentin [pseudonym; Richard Wilson Webb and Hugh Callingham Wheeler], Love Is a Deadly Weapon, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books…. From the entry outdoorsiness
  • I tried their sample cleanser, my face was popping pimples like mad and their nail polish, so laoya!2010, lurvecakes, "http://singaporemotherhood.com/forum/threads/2007-03-march-2007-mtbs.521/page-3848", SingaporeMotherhood Forum, 9 June…. From the entry laoya
  • He had shoulder length brown hair, a speech defect and a chinful of pimples on the verge of bursting.1993, Dermot Bolger, The Picador book of Irish contemporary fiction, page 321. From the entry chinful
  • No, a pimple is not a small pimp.1909, “Syphilo-dermo Urologic Maxims”, in American Journal of Dermatology and Genito-urinary Diseases, page 89. From the entry hickey
  • I am talking about — of course — LED blinkenlights, the usually-blue glowing pimples that pepper routers, speakers, computers and even USB hubs.2011 June 6, Charlie Sorrel, “LightDims: Tiny Sunglasses for Blinkenlights”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2011. From the entry blinkenlights
  • He was a scrawny sort, not over seventeen, with pimples in the corners of his lips and hair the color of mopwater.2004, Joe Jackson, How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things, page 39. From the entry mopwater
  • There it was, right in the middle of my forehead - the biggest, blindest, reddest pimple I'd ever seen, just hanging there like a limpet mine.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 28. From the entry blind
  • And it is ruining my social life. face keeps breaking out with pimples and I know I look repulsive, so how can I ever expect to have boy friends?1958 March 26, “Acne Causes Social Woes”, in Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, SC. From the entry social life

Meaning of pimple

  1. noun An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
  2. noun An annoying person.
  3. noun Scotch (whisky).

Full definition of pimple

Questions about pimple in a sentence

How do you use pimple in a sentence?
Pimple is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I had to pop that embarrassing pimple, it was huge and red and on the tip of my nose.”
What is a short sentence with pimple?
“Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.”
What does pimple mean?
Pimple means an inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.

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