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Recent Examples of updoThe Academy Award-winning actress wore her hair in an elegant updo, opting for a low bun with a few strands let out to frame one side of her face.—Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025 Boho french curl braids styled in an elegant updo with face-framing curls showed off the collar of her floor-length tuxedo inspired gown.—Cierra Black, Essence, 11 June 2025 Related Articles To complete their look, the actor wore a curly wig in an updo, nodding to Peters’ signature hairstyle.—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 8 June 2025 The former Disney star also paired the look with black sunglasses and high heels and wore her blonde hair in an old-fashioned updo with curled bangs.—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for updo
Miki Sudo was once again victorious at the 2025 hot dog eating contest, devouring 33 hot dogs and buns in the women's event, which kicked off at 10:45 a.m.
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Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
5 July 2025
The contestant who not only consumes, but also keeps down, the most hot dogs and buns within the 10-minute limit is determined the winner.
All the sauces are made in-house, many incorporating honey sourced from 19 beehives on the 7-acres surrounding the Old Saybrook location.
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Sarah Kyrcz,
Hartford Courant,
16 June 2025
Around town, there are now electric fences around apple trees, chicken coops, livestock paddocks, beehives, vegetable gardens, composts and sections of the government-run kokanee salmon spawning channel so that bears can fish and humans can monitor kokanee in safety.
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Lesley Evans Ogden,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
The ‘pouf sentimental’ hairstyle was created by hairdresser Leonard Autie and debuted on the Duchesse de Chartres in 1774, famously adorned with 14 yards of gauze, figurines, a plate of cherries and a parrot.
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Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
Skip tight hairstyles, such as ponytails or buns, that pull on your hair and scalp.
The big hair matched his baritone and broad shoulders, the kind that come from years of scratching over 10- and 20-foot swells.
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Ryan Knighton,
AFAR Media,
12 May 2025
Instead of relying on clichés like big hair and fake tans (RHONJ) or blonde hair and less fake tans (RHOC andRHOBH and RHOM), the series will have to be about the next-best thing: generational trauma.
With my short hair with the perm on top and a big scar.
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Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
20 Mar. 2025
Touted as a perm for your lashes, lash lifts are for the minimalist makeup girlies who want that lifted look sans all that extra effort of using mascara, a curler, and extensions.
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