How to Use semipermanent in a Sentence

semipermanent

adjective
  • But most of the tents, as well as some semipermanent structures, remained in the northern section.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2021
  • The contest is held in a cluster of semipermanent tents in a parking lot behind Caesar's Palace on the Las Vegas strip.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2022
  • In Madagascar, the large island off the southeast coast of Africa, the situation is less grim, but droughts that used to come in cycles are now semipermanent.
    Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2017
  • These semipermanent colors have a rich pigment level that will upgrade your shade.
    Tanya Edwards, CNN Underscored, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Permanent fillers, like silicone, and semipermanent ones (which can last up to five years) are no longer as commonly used.
    Julie Ricevuto, Allure, 5 Nov. 2020
  • As is the case with microblading, a semipermanent service that uses tiny needles to create hair-like strokes for more defined brows.
    Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Enter lip blushing, a semipermanent tattooing method designed to enhance the natural color and shape of your mouth for one to two years.
    Kate Foster, Glamour, 14 Jan. 2022
  • But the presence of people who call the Jordan River their semipermanent home definitely has an impact, Rupp said.
    Taylor Stevens, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • The photos usually appeared on the Instagram grid (the semipermanent album of photos on a person’s profile page).
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Similar to the way wrinkle reducers like Xeomin or Botox Cosmetic smooth fine lines on the skin for a few months, hair Botox acts as a semipermanent deep conditioner, smoothing hair for about the same length of time.
    Lindy Segal, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Faux freckles have become quite the trend over the last couple of years, thanks in part to Pinterest ideas that include everything from using glitter to getting semipermanent face tattoos.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 5 June 2018
  • Over the past four years or so, microblading has become the semipermanent solution for beefing up overplucked, sparse, and/or nonexistent brows.
    Allure, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The company uses semipermanent structures that can be quickly broken down while leaving almost no trace.
    Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Like any tattoo, microblading does (for the most part) fade over time, making permanent eyebrows more like semipermanent eyebrows.
    Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 25 May 2022
  • For Southeast Asia in particular, the loss of tourist income is already becoming semipermanent.
    Mike Bird, WSJ, 25 June 2021
  • Expectations need to be managed: The results are only semipermanent.
    Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Sep. 2022
  • What was once an isolated, stable society cloaked in semipermanent darkness has been thrust to the forefront of Arctic change by rapid warming and the interests that warming precipitates.
    Gloria Dickie, Scientific American, 18 May 2021
  • Expectations also need to be managed: The results are only semipermanent.
    Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The neat thing is that, unlike semipermanent tattoos, Brow Magic looks can be immediately redone with makeup remover.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But Fern's home on the range is a van, and her itinerant life — as captured in Chloé Zhao's spare, extraordinary new drama Nomadland — is less a choice than a semipermanent condition of a nation whose safety net has evaporated.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • More sinister, and less public, are the lobbyists and semipermanent political staffers who connect candidates to donors for their mutual benefit, if no one else’s.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Demipermanent hair color is a little more permanent than semipermanent color but less permanent than permanent color.
    Myranda Mondry, Allure, 11 Mar. 2023
  • With the proliferation of professional services and extension salons offering semipermanent solutions to a full-on flutter, the go-to desert-island essential—with its lengthening, thickening, inky finish—is being discussed in analog terms.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2019

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