How to Use tweeze in a Sentence

tweeze

verb
  • Use a flashlight while tweezing to try to catch a glint of the glass.
    Gina Tomaine, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2017
  • After the brows are set in place, some techs like to tweeze away any stray hairs.
    Tori Crowther, Allure, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Her mouth was painted, her eyebrows were tweezed and her eyes were smoky — the look of silent film stars of that era.
    New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • Like most of us, Markle was a victim of over-tweezing her eyebrows years ago.
    Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 June 2018
  • Just make sure to take it one hair at a time, in order to avoid tweezing them too thin or trimming the strands too short.
    Jillian Ruffo, PEOPLE.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Remove your finger and only tweeze the hairs in between those two lines.
    Paige Stables, Allure, 30 June 2022
  • Draw the pencil along the lower edge of your brows, connecting the three lines, and then tweeze only the strays that sprout beyond them.
    Kayleigh Donahue, Allure, 6 June 2018
  • Those who tweeze and thread, on the other hand, can usually expect a good amount of growth within six weeks.
    Kaleigh Fasanella, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2017
  • As far as the pain level, sugaring is more like tweezing on the ouch scale—not pain-free but not waddle-to-the-subway painful.
    Emily Rekstis, SELF, 25 July 2018
  • Oh! There’s the chef, tweezing a layer of scales made from perfect radish discs onto tuna belly.
    Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Over Plucking Rather than tweezing, Lynn suggests taming brows with a gel or wax and filling in sparse zones with a pencil.
    Hannah Morrill, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 July 2014
  • The pool is a pressure cooker of social expectations for women: to diet, shop, shave, tweeze, sculpt and tone.
    Amanda Hess, New York Times, 3 July 2019
  • And one woman had to have ball bearings tweezed from her flesh, metal fragments removed from her ear and wood shards extracted from her neck.
    Annie Correal and Samantha Schmidt, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2016
  • But at the same time, don’t schedule major life decisions or plans to tweeze your friend’s face the day or two after getting the bivalent Covid-19 booster.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The young chefs behind the counter tweezed skinny mushrooms onto a dainty plate, or shelled pistachios, placing each dish in front of us with a sharp little bow.
    Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2018
  • An ingrown hair happens when a hair (generally one that's been tweezed or shaved off) grows back into the skin, instead of out of it, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    Alexis Jones, Women's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But unlike most of her peers, Streicher never waxed eyebrows — only tweezed.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
  • The absolute best way to ensure regular hair growth is to leave your brows alone; tweezing, rubbing, and picking at them only leads to premature hair loss.
    Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Dec. 2018
  • But the root causes are confounding — how to tweeze out genetic predispositions from lifestyle choices and income — and this muddies what can be done about it.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • More advanced methods like tweezing or waxing are explained below.
    Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • For example, Kylie Jenner was shamed for having long nails, while Kourtney Kardashian received similar feedback for not tweezing her son's eyebrows.
    Emily Wang, Allure, 2 July 2018
  • While some experts emphasize immediate removal over belatedly using the best method, scraping is usually easier than tweezing anyway.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2017
  • While some experts emphasize immediate removal over belatedly using the best method, scraping is usually easier than tweezing anyway.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2017

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