pomade

Example Sentences

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Because bathing kiwis in a dressing tames their fuzz, just like pomade smooths frizzed hair on a humid day.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2021

Last year, the company produced more than 6 million 4-ounce cans of their pomade.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2020

That prison soap must be suffused with argan oil – either that or Robbins’ scalp secretes pomade, given his lustrous locks are more solid than those securing the cell doors.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2020

His thick, steel-gray hair was swept back Gatsby style and lacquered with what looked like pomade.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2020

‘You won’t find it in your books,’ my brother would playfully taunt me as he prepared to go to a party by freezing the crest of the wave in his hair with sticky pomade.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez