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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I now handle a razor with assurance, but blood still drops whenever I tweeze, pluck or wax.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 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
And if you’re down for some virtual advice, for $100, you can upload some photos of your brows to Streicher’s website and receive detailed personal instructions from her on how to properly tweeze and trim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
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
“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
“She put herself out there; she tweezed those eyebrows up to 2007!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2019
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
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
In fact, the opposite can even happen: Waxing, tweezing or threading can reduce hair growth, because some hair follicles get damaged by the removal process and stop producing hair, she said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
"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
“You can do just as much damage trimming as with tweezing — but with trimming, at least it grows back. With tweezing, the follicle can get damaged and then you’re screwed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
So, if I started tweezing my eyebrows, no one really noticed.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 24, 2019
Mary didn’t realize until months later that he’d been studying her hands, checking their dexterity and strength to see how they’d stand up to hours of delicate cutting, scraping, tweezing, and pipetting.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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