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

Ebert, who flew from Munich to Chicago to retrieve the painting, will carefully bubble-wrap the centuries-old landscape to take it back home, where it will be touched up and restored after an eventful several decades.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2023

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

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2023

He pressed Bud, forcing his way through the gashes and touched up the champ, pushing Bud back a bit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2023

Beside him hung the required portrait of El Jefe, touched up to make him look better than he was.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez