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

The parish priest said the paintings had simply been touched up following recent water damage - but said he did not "understand the fuss" in any case.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 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

To top it all off, the paint throughout the home must be touched up.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 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