How to Use crew cut in a Sentence

crew cut

noun
  • The boys, in crew cuts and ties, learn in the buildings of the lower campus.
    Emma Green, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2019
  • His hair was styled into cornrows at the top and a crew cut on the side.
    Ronald Blum, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
  • Call it dapper: Mr. Schreiber, 64, wears his hair in a crew cut and is rarely seen without a coat and tie.
    New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Nason is pale and of medium build, with a crew cut, a goatee, and blue eyes.
    Peter Andrey Smith, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2019
  • This is as common as the crew cut of late.
    Adam Hurly, GQ, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Pete Rose was a 22-year-old rookie, the cocky Cincinnati kid with a crew cut.
    Ben Walker, Star Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020
  • There was the teenage barman Mikey Reilly with his pink cheeks and sawdust crew cut.
    Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Derek Colling is trim and muscular, with a blond crew cut that was, that day, covered by a dark beanie.
    Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 21 May 2021
  • With firm compression in every contour of the foot and a classic crew cut, these are the socks for them.
    John Thompson, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Zibtsev, 59, is lean and lanky, with a heavy gray crew cut that always seems fully grown out.
    Jane Braxton Little, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The first one not to get a crew cut, the first one to eschew bell bottoms, a clarinet player for the only rock band in South Ozone Park.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Howard, 27, was his opposite: short, with a blond crew cut and tattoos up to his eyebrows.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • Once the crew cut grew back, Isabella started just pulling her hair back into a pony tail.
    Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Akers has a trim gray mustache, a military crew cut and soft brown eyes that crease at the corners.
    New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Manny had a crew cut, khakis and cargo boots and stood at least six inches above the average Joe.
    Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 17 July 2019
  • The main speaker at the event was a Border Patrol officer named Sergio Tinoco, a man in his late 40s with a wide chest and a crew cut.
    Cecilia Ballí, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • His latest: a coiffed crew cut showing off some lighter blonde highlights – with hints of his foxy silver strands!
    Staff Author, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Angelo the barber gave Don a crew cut on the third Saturday of every month.
    Steve Friedman, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
  • With the same crew cut, Waterson even bears a passing resemblance to the actor.
    Sandy Thin, CNN, 20 Sep. 2021
  • For thousands, Gil Thorp is but a crew cut memory, a relic of our bygone youth.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2023
  • That distinction belongs to Shinobu Fukushima, whose dark crew cut and agility in the crease cloak his age.
    Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The trinity: The marbled, fatty brisket ($14.99) was moist, but it was needlessly sliced like a military-style crew cut.
    Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Bassist Flea, sporting a hot-pink crew cut, offered an exuberant speech.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Aug. 2022
  • There in the grainy photos, recognizable from the crew cut everyone in the family jokes about and the nose Paul and his brother David share, is a thirty-year-old Bayard Richard.
    Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
  • And Gyllenhaal accordingly gets a lot of mileage out of his crew cut and tight shirt, flexing the vein-bulging tension he’s managed to affect in his body and mannerisms.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2021
  • He was born in Los Angeles to a Hollywood studio executive and a showgirl, and he was often pictured with a crew cut and an earnest smile.
    Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The face of the FBI's agent force is changing, too, moving away from the stereotypical white male military veteran or former accountant with a crew cut.
    NBC News, 16 Aug. 2019
  • He was born in Los Angeles to a Hollywood studio executive and a showgirl, and he was often pictured wearing a crew cut and an earnest smile.
    Alex Traub, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Fan, who is serious and reserved, with a crew cut and a round face that betrays little emotion, was able to document parts of his account, including the offer letter that drew him to Cambodia.
    Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • His security detail — men with crew cuts, colorful batik shirts and black pants — seemed relaxed despite the unpredictable nature of the walkabouts.
    Washington Post, 27 July 2019

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