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
• The dye molecules aren’t embedded in the hair, which means a semipermanent dye will continue to wash out with each shampoo.
  — Myranda Mondry, Allure, 11 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Demipermanent hair color is like semipermanent dye’s cousin that has a bit more staying power.
  — Myranda Mondry, Allure, 11 Mar. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024