tweeze
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of tweeze
First recorded in 1940–45; back formation from tweezers
Example Sentences
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With a Moroccan argan oil base, this formula contains essential oils to relax you before going in for the tweeze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
You’re likely to have a few follicles still producing hair after the full course of treatments, which you’ll probably want to shave or tweeze for aesthetics’ sake.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2021
It’s like that old board game Operation, where you have to meticulously tweeze bits ‘n’ pieces out of your unwitting patient.
From The Verge ● Mar. 23, 2018
Yes, it played some role, but it’s difficult to tweeze apart voters’ hostility toward Clinton as a person and the degree to which that dislike was fueled by gender stereotypes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2017
“Arrange flowers in a vase, talk to boys, tweeze your eyebrows, shave your legs, apply lipstick ...” “What about vomit in a sink? They teach a charming way to do that?” she asked.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Back in the sampling tent, the scientists tweezed clumps of the manakin's breast feathers to be sent for analysis, before the bird is returned unharmed to the wild.
From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023
But the larvae and pupae, carefully tweezed out of disinterred nests, are eaten immediately, gently simmered with ginger so they stay creamy, or fried to a crisp.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
Across the stage, a ballerina in pink tights tweezed blisters on her feet.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
“Each episode, I lightened my hair a little bit and, like, tweezed a row of eyebrows.” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2017
In I went, pushing the door back so the hinges cried out, devils, their thumbs crushed, their pointed noses tweezed.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
"John had this wonderful story of a lady he would see tweezing her eyebrows in front of the window and makeup mirror for what seemed to be hours. So we featured tweezing lady," said Bolan.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2021
Ms. Browne added: “There’s more tweezing, but the older you get the more fun it gets to be a woman.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2017
Blowtorch in hand, he pulled the softened glass apart like taffy, tweezing out glass shards with a flick of his wrist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2016
As it eats, the phalarope moves its beak in a rapid tweezing motion, transforming food-laden droplets of water into aspherical shapes that are propelled up into its mouth.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2015
A few eejits bent over the earth, tweezing up weeds and squashing bugs.This was their country, the country of the eejits.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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