How to Use cosmetology in a Sentence

cosmetology

noun
  • So many braiders don’t have the desire — or the money — to go to cosmetology school.
    Mariah Smith, Allure, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Dazhai, a cosmetology student at the time, would make hair bows for her clients.
    Sydney N. Walton, CNN, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Linehan grew up in the Bay Area and right out of high school entered cosmetology school.
    Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • As a teenager, she was drawn to cosmetology of the living.
    Eleanor Cummins, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
  • After high school, LeCroy went cosmetology school and opened the doors on her salon in 2017.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2024
  • At the time, Josh was bouncing in and out of jobs, and Susan left her job in cosmetology to work as a broker at Wells Fargo.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 4 May 2019
  • Her kids, now 11 and 15, are enjoying their new school and Gabriela was able to apply for a loan and attend cosmetology school this year.
    Abigail Abrams, Time, 12 June 2019
  • After its days as a movie theater ended in 1968, the building had been used as a cosmetology school, a dance hall and a Baptist church.
    Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • On a July afternoon in 1995, in the middle of her cosmetology class in Nashville, a school staffer rushed in.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The cosmetology schools spend 1,600 hours teaching us how to destroy our hair.
    Alexa Díaz, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • Ovid, predictably, wrote an Art of Love, a send-up of the whole genre, and at least started a didactic poem on cosmetology.
    Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
  • DeeDee Patterson, an instructor in the cosmetology program, can count on one hand the number of men she’s taught in the past eight years.
    Kelly Field, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • There's the cosmetology license, the rent (either for the location or for your chair within a salon), and the supplies.
    Kaitlyn McNa, Allure, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The newest Ducey appointee to the cosmetology board, Brandi Wells, agreed.
    Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 5 Apr. 2018
  • In a commercial for the business, Carter said the goal of the program was to instruct kids on how to navigate the cosmetology industry and one day open a shop of their own.
    Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The 35-year-old had finished her first day of cosmetology school that afternoon.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Brooks-Williams had gone to cosmetology school and made money doing hair in her apartment in Southeast.
    Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • From there, his father worked a hotel manager job to get through cosmetology school and open the salon.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
  • The cosmetology school has been at 2000 Silvernail Road, Waukesha, for the past seven years.
    Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Harris said Shai’India was a straight-A student, and had earned a scholarship to go to cosmetology college in Atlanta.
    oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Stone got his cosmetology license and has been working in salons since the early 1970s.
    idahostatesman, 6 May 2017
  • Lowell inmates say the cosmetology program is a refuge from prison life.
    refinery29.com, 2 June 2018
  • His wife, Denise, was encouraged by her aunt to take cosmetology courses that led to her first job working at Central Park Mall.
    Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Lounge about in a roomy suite or call for an in-room spa treatment, which uses expert French cosmetology with ancient techniques.
    Vogue, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Fresh out of cosmetology school, Jennifer Guy was glad to start work as a hairdresser in late February.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2020
  • To earn a state license, Carver’s cosmetology students need to log 1,500 hours of training.
    Talia Richman, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The 24-year-old waitress and cosmetology student was found beaten, raped and strangled.
    Lyndsay Winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Tinoco has a lot of goals—to move to D.C., to enroll in cosmetology school, to maybe do makeup or special effects for movies and TV shows—and shows an impressive drive to realize them.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2022
  • These tend to be for-profit schools that offer certificate programs in industries such as cosmetology, the study found.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 May 2024
  • Owners of cosmetology schools, however, say training in treating all kinds of hair is already in the curriculum and doesn’t need a new law to mandate teaching it.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2024

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