How to Use tweeze in a Sentence

tweeze

verb
  • After the brows are set in place, some techs like to tweeze away any stray hairs.
    Tori Crowther, Allure, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Use a flashlight while tweezing to try to catch a glint of the glass.
    Gina Tomaine, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2017
  • Most people would say that waxing and tweezing are more painful.
    Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Remove your finger and only tweeze the hairs in between those two lines.
    Paige Stables, Allure, 30 June 2022
  • An hour and a half later, Kamara tweezes out a chunk of rough, spongy bone.
    Sophia Li, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Two long threads are twisted in unison to pluck hair out with a quicker movement than tweezing.
    Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Alternate tweezing hairs from one side to the other side, little by little.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 24 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • More advanced methods like tweezing or waxing are explained below.
    Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The current state of his ’stache, more tweezed than Hughes’s rebellious bushy caterpillar, is owed to that role.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Vergara’s noticeably full eyebrows needed to be thinned and tweezed with a higher arch for that ’70s look.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
  • But unlike most of her peers, Streicher never waxed eyebrows — only tweezed.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
  • Brows can thin for a lot of different reasons, from years of tweezing to chronic stress, which explains why thinning or sparse brows are so common.
    Deanna Pai, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some choices seemed pored over like Danish chefs tweezing microgreens; others seemed haphazard.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 30 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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