How to Use moustache in a Sentence

moustache

noun
  • For a swimmer to have a moustache was, well, ridiculous.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Sep. 2022
  • His double-breasted tan suit had to be just right, as did his thin moustache.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The balding singer with a stubby moustache and sequined blazer slid across the stage.
    The Economist, 28 Nov. 2020
  • There’s something Freddy Mercury-esque in the moustache, but the look and feel of his videos is indie all the way.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 25 May 2022
  • For a few episodes, Outer Banks is forced to live in a new world, where Ward isn’t the primary moustache twirling villain.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The corners of Karloff’s eyes were angled upwards, while the hairs of his moustache were twirled to skinny needles at their ends.
    Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
  • An old baseball soul, sporting a youthful and patchy moustache.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2023
  • Kibler pushes his new gray Stetson, the exact color of his moustache, back on his head, looks up into the bluffs, and lets out a long breath.
    Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Sporting a big gray moustache and cane, Cousin Lou would stroll over during the day, to catch up on neighborhood news and visit with farmers getting their grains ground in the mill.
    Helen Shriver Riley, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Dogs and buzzards fought over a dead cat in the middle of the street, directly across from an officer who watched the ferocious struggle from a barred window, twirling the ends of his moustache.
    Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • Dogs and buzzards fought over a dead cat in the middle of the street, directly across from an officer who watched the ferocious struggle from a barred window, twirling the ends of his moustache.
    Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 July 2022
  • Panel discussion starts: Forgot to mention that Paul Davies has shaved off his moustache.
    Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2011
  • Emperor tamarins are dwarf monkeys with whiskers that resemble a white moustache.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The songwriter wears a Dali-like moustache and silver chains instead of diamond necklaces.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Secret Stache will have six cocktails and four martinis, all named after different styles of moustaches.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2023
  • Known for his upturned moustache and sensation-inducing paintings, Salvador Dalí was one of the 20th century’s most famous artists.
    Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2022
  • Schaar is luminous and mischievous as Rosalind, who grows to relish the freedom of discarding her 1950s crinoline dress and high heels for manly apparel and a pencil moustache.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Sills has a dapper moustache and a certain impatience as Monsieur Bourdain, who heads the kitchen of a railroad tycoon's wife who is determined to impress her old-money neighbors.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The guy’s a real character, rocking a handlebar moustache and slathering rhinestones and fringe on his suits for his two-man operation, Western Union.
    Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Not even the man who brought Carrie Bradshaw to screen could have engineered a plot line so ludicrous as that of Lexus, an ascendant knitwear designer with a collection of expensive shoes, and Josh, a man with the moustache of an amateur poet.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023

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