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How to use sideburns in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Sideburns means facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin. Example: “His left sideburn was longer than the other one.”

More sentences with sideburns

  • His left sideburn was longer than the other one.From the entry sideburn
  • They all looked dirty and unkempt, the girls with long greasy hair, theboys ditto, two with sideburns.2014, Dell Shannon, Unexpected Death. From the entry underbrow
  • He had thick black glasses and sideburns and curly red hair.”2013, Carolyn Breckinridge, Tuscaloosa Moon, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry geekazoid
  • “I don't have any money,” he said as she ran a hand down his sideburn through his beard.2013, Benjamin Nugent, Good Kids, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry sideburn
  • Raj, you will be painting sideburns and a Van Dyke on a six-inch figurine of Legolas the elf.2009 May 11, Eric Kaplan, Richard Rosenstock, “The Monopolar Expedition”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 2, episode 23, spoken by Sheldon…. From the entry vandyke
  • 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
  • He observed himself staring through the avocado leaves, a gray-haired old man with thick salt-and-pepper sideburns and jealous eyes.1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 9, in Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 330. From the entry salt-and-pepper
  • His generous sideburns dipped low enough to connect with his chin curtain, which made it look as though he were wearing a bizarre furry helmet.2016, Tarah Benner, Bound in Blood. From the entry chin curtain
  • A blond kid with a whitewall haircut and long, thin sideburns came over to stand beside the kid with the wimpy Roman do.2011, Mike Stewart, A Clean Kill. From the entry whitewall
  • “But where are these boys' sideburns?2010, Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN. From the entry spleef
  • Some possible deselectors: Males wearing their hair too long or with sideburns may be viewed as messy, unkempt or failing to keep current.1991, E. Patricia Birsner, Mid-career job hunting: official handbook of the Forty Plus Club. From the entry deselector
  • As for sideburns, the attraction was lost on me even in the 50s, but big, anachronistic muttonchops on hippy boys were the cream in my coffee in the 60s.1992 July 4, Frank R.A.J. Maloney, “90210”, in soc.motss (Usenet). From the entry cream in one's coffee

Meaning of sideburns

  1. noun Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.

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Questions about sideburns in a sentence

How do you use sideburns in a sentence?
Sideburns is used as a noun. For example: “His left sideburn was longer than the other one.”
What is a short sentence with sideburns?
““But where are these boys' sideburns?”
What does sideburns mean?
Sideburns means facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.

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