How to Use greasepaint in a Sentence

greasepaint

noun

• The solution, clowns say, is staring them in the face: Lose the greasepaint.
  — Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• The metal dashboard to the left of the steering wheel is covered in pink and blue greasepaint from where the dummy's head made contact.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 May 2019
• Mao is 6 years old and swaddled in a heavy kimono, her face covered in the thick white greasepaint of a Kabuki actor.
  — Ben Dooley, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2020
• Baseball has to wipe off its bad greasepaint plastered on by nerds who never played.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
• Pennywise is one scary clown, a creature with red greasepaint stripes that trail from his eyes to his leering lips like bloody tears.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
• Ever eye the edges of his black mock turtleneck and wonder why they weren’t smudged with greasepaint during MacWorld?
  — Megan McCarthy, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2007
• As lots of beloved beauty brands have proven over the last few years, Halloween makeup doesn't have to be the questionable greasepaint found on drugstore endcaps.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 12 Oct. 2019
• When Ma sings, resplendent in her gold teeth and greasepaint makeup, the aches and joys of living reverberate within her all at once.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• But Gil and George breathe the oily, obsessive air generated by hot lights, greasepaint and outlandish, in-the-moment illusions.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2016
• Conceiving the signature sweaty greasepaint look was only one part of the challenge for Lopez-Rivera as Davis’s personal makeup artist.
  — Emma Fraser, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2021
• White actors performing in those shows used to rub their faces with shoe polish or greasepaint to impersonate and act out overblown racist stereotypes of Black people.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2020
• Sweat and greasepaint sluicing off her, her gold teeth glinting in her mouth, Davis’ Ma Rainey reveals the way the blues are wrung not just from a voice but also from a defiant body containing historical multitudes.
  — Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2020
• Sweat and greasepaint sluicing off her, her gold teeth glinting in her mouth, Davis’ Ma Rainey reveals the way the blues are wrung not just from a voice but also from a defiant body containing historical multitudes.
  — Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2020
• At the same time, Mr. Timbers’s production, which features a strategically clichéd book by John Logan, translates the shimmery illusions of cinema into the grit and greasepaint of live theater.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 July 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024