Definition of WIG

Examples of wig in a Sentence

Noun

She was wearing a blonde wig. the cancer patient started wearing a wig after losing all of her hair from chemotherapy

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Fenwick was shot after Burrell, wearing a wig, hat, sunglasses, and his sister’s makeup, forced his way into her trailer to steal money. — Washington Post, "Juvenile killer serving life resentenced to 37 years," 8 June 2018 Among them are nursing-home costs, insurance premiums paid with after-tax dollars, prostheses, eyeglasses, and even a wig if needed after chemotherapy, among others. — WSJ, "WSJ Tax Guide 2019: Medical-Expenses Deduction," 15 Feb. 2019 Nicole worked with Children With Hair Loss to donate and create the two wigs. — Maya Mcdowell, House Beautiful, "HGTV's Nicole Curtis Cut Over a Foot of Her Hair to Create Wigs for Children With Hair Loss," 11 Feb. 2019 Did Kate put on a really convincing ginger beard and wig for her royal wedding to Meghan? — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, "The Latest Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton 'Feud' Rumor Doesn't Even Make Sense," 3 Jan. 2019 The wig-snatching viral star was eliminated during last week's American Idol, which narrowed the singing competition from 50 to 24 contestants. — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, "'American Idol': These five contestants could win it all," 6 Apr. 2018 Forty people turned up at a Palmer wig-making workshop. — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, "‘Strands of Magic’: Alaska moms get national recognition for yarn wigs," 13 Feb. 2018 Shown in a black venue her black clothes were enlightened by towering white wigs (à la Marie Antoinette) and slashes of skin that were visible through the geometric cuts of the garments. — Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, "Vogue Runway Did a Ten-Year Fashion Challenge: Check Out the Results Here," 30 Jan. 2019 In the middle of the ring, towering above the crowd in high heels and a blue wig, drag queen Pollo Del Mar kicked off a night of over-the-top wrestling, complete with rivalries, soap opera antics and prolonged heckling. — Beth Spotswood, San Francisco Chronicle, "Pro wrestling gets a hold in the city, San Francisco style," 5 June 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

There were wigged rave parties in Stella’s hospital room, trips for Stella to go find herself in Paris, and absolutely none of the unavoidable chaos that naturally comes with being alive. — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, "Life Sentence Isn't Pretty Little Liars, & That's A Good Thing," 7 Mar. 2018 This would be good news for the economy and the traveling public, if Republicans don’t wig out. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "An Air-Traffic Winner," 11 Oct. 2017 When Infiniti released images of the Prototype 9 concept last week, the automotive internet wigged out a little. — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, "10 Things to Know about Infiniti’s Amazing Prototype 9," 18 Aug. 2017 Nintendo says it's also resolved an issue whereby game updates would fail to complete (after which the game would no longer start), and another that could cause the HDMI inputs to wig out on some TVs when the console was docked and asleep. — Matt Peckham, Time, "The Nintendo Switch Can Find Your Lost Joy-Cons," 20 June 2017 Other factors need to be part of the mix for people to wig out, and those happen to be in good supply aboard a commercial airline flight. — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, "Crowded airplanes heighten aggression. We know that from studying rats.," 3 June 2017

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