Examples of perm in a Sentence
Noun
She got a perm last week.
Verb
She got her hair permed at the salon.
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Meg Walters, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
At one salon, above a row of glass-bowl hairdryers, there’s a poster showing a perm machine from the nineteen-twenties that looks like something out of Frankenstein’s lab.
—Helen Sullivan, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 29 May 2025
Next, a neutralizing solution is applied to the hair to stop the perming solution from perming too much.
—Sable Yong, Vogue, 28 May 2025
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Noun
To go with her new gal on the go lifestyle, she's chopped off her iconic perm in favor of a whimsical, shaggy pixie cut.
—Meg Walters, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
At one salon, above a row of glass-bowl hairdryers, there’s a poster showing a perm machine from the nineteen-twenties that looks like something out of Frankenstein’s lab.
—Helen Sullivan, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
Verb
That’s probably because Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy wore their hair short and permed, and in Dorothy’s case, proudly gray.
—Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 29 May 2025
Next, a neutralizing solution is applied to the hair to stop the perming solution from perming too much.
—Sable Yong, Vogue, 28 May 2025
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“Perm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perm. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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perm
1 of 2 nounperm
2 of 2 verb
: to give (hair) a permanent
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