Example Sentences
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He didn’t look like the 2,500 perfectly primped pooches around him.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2021
With the crowd at Madison Square Garden chanting for Daniel the popular golden retriever, judge Bob Slay instead picked the perfectly primped and poised black poodle Tuesday night.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2020
“You can’t wear your hair down in a sequin dress,” a voice echoed through a corridor backstage, while fixtures of New York’s ballroom scene primped and prepared.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2019
A giant schnauzer is meticulously primped and primed on a grooming table while a half-submerged Newfoundland is scrubbed in an elevated bathtub.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2019
Mrs. Ogletree even primped her boy Georgie, whom she’d gadded up in a green velvet Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
