beauty queen
Example Sentences
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The former beauty queen passed away early on Monday morning in hospital following an illness, according to local media.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Carrie Prejean Boller, a former beauty queen and faithful Trump supporter, has found herself at the center of an explosive conservative fight.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026
She fought the pressure of waning celebrity, but it was not easy to be a 40-something beauty queen in Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025
In a red-white-and-blue outfit, high-heeled boots and a pageant sash that reads “Cowboy Carter,” she’s a beauty queen and a white-hatted heroine claiming her nation — her country, in both senses.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2024
It never entered her head that they would elect her beauty queen of the carnival pandemonium.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
