hairdryer

/ ˈhɛəˌdraɪə /

noun

1. a hand-held electric device that blows out hot air and is used to dry and, sometimes, assist in styling the hair, as in blow-drying

2. a device for drying the hair in which hot air is blown into a hood that surrounds the head of a seated person

Example Sentences

Expert advice from an emergency vet suggested Rhian wrap the pup in a towel and use warming heat from a hairdryer to gently increase its temperature to successfully help it to survive.

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Some discover their own ways of managing the debilitating pain: sitting in a hot bath while wearing an ice pack and drinking a smoothie, blasting the side of their face with a hairdryer.

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“I set up a makeshift charcoal forge in the backyard and used my mother’s hairdryer as a forge blower,” he said.

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Years earlier, in the dry heat of a Portuguese late evening, it was a young Cristiano Ronaldo who was left in floods of tears by the famed Sir Alex Ferguson hairdryer.

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Rather than losing his head and delivering the hairdryer, this time Ferguson was showing his bullish side.

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