touched up

Example Sentences

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While working in New York’s Oribe salon, he took her hair from brown to its signature multidimensional golden hue, then touched up her roots every other week and refreshed the color four times a year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

In his only start against the Rangers, he was touched up for seven runs in 2 1/3 innings at Globe Life Field on June 4.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

The prime minister also touched up the "unimaginable crisis" caused by natural calamities in several states this year.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2023

Once this statue has been cleaned, said Linda Bartolozzi, one of the restorers, it will be touched up if necessary and then coated with a protective product to help it resist the weather.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

While Antoinette touched up her eye makeup, the mouse father put Despereaux down on a bed made of blanket scraps.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo