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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of vamp
Noun
The brown shoe features a metal horse bit detail across the vamp and a slingback strap. Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025 Her pair reminds me of these Earth penny loafers with a warm brown hue and unembellished vamp. Izzy Baskette, People.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
Tonight the castle was lit up like a movie set with klieg lights and scores of Cinecittà extras vamping as cardinals. Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 15 July 2025 Val Kilmer cuts an excellent cowl, Nicole Kidman enjoys a rare vamping role, and even Jim Carrey carries some legitimate hellzapoppin’ menace as the Riddler. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for vamp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vamp
Noun
  • Stoker’s Frankensteined creation was born from the history of the Anglo-literary vampire that begins with Polidori’s Ruthven, the first aristocratic, Byronesque and demonic seducer.
    Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Goth’s look put a gothic spin on the coquette aesthetic, with her hair in a half-up, half-down style and fringe to frame her face.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Along with Labubus, the shopsilverstars makes K-pop, coquette, and Taylor Swift advent calendar gift boxes.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The humor and bond between the couple, who rib each other at home and chatter back and forth in car rides to doctor appointments, is highlighted in both films.
    Lina Lecaro, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Mongolian Cashmere Fisherman Crewneck Sweater Similar to Alba’s cardigan, this sweater has ribbed details and is made from the same ultra-soft material.
    Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But Tatum is more than just your garden-variety charmer.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Even an effortless charmer like Glen Powell can have awkward encounters with other celebrities.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • She is gifted with a lovely color of a lyric soprano suitable for roles in the spectrum from a lyric, lyric coloratura to a soubrette.
    Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Not only did diners want to enjoy her singing in the cabaret, no doubt many could not resist coming to see for themselves the soubrette who had inspired such fury in the late George VI.
    Olivia Williams, Town & Country, 1 June 2021
Verb
  • Starbucks customers may someday be able to order drinks, including alcoholic beverages, by simply talking to their phones, the company teased last week.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Call Her Daddy has not teased any potential upcoming appearance by the superstar, and has not yet responded to Billboard‘s request for comment.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Adriana’s telling, Julia was a seductress who always had a crush on her.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Case in point, the character of Bruiser Stone (Lana Parrilla), reimagined here as a buxom seductress with a heart of gold.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Kizzi is an intractable flirt, a trait that is very popular with the boys, and, from the looks of the preview at the end of the episode, also with the girls.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Fire up the flirt pole Cats have teaser wands, dogs have flirt poles.
    Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Vamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vamp. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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