trimmer

Example Sentences

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When she refuses, Spears grabs the trimmer and clicks it on: “The extensions are hacked into lifeless scraps … the stray hairs curl on the floor like writhing snakes.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

Men with enormous beards that have never known the touch of a trimmer.

From Salon • Aug. 7, 2024

Hernandez, 37, appears fit and trim — perhaps fitter and trimmer than in his last few years with Seattle.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2023

Like Tom, Adam, who has also dealt with depression and anxiety, has his own experience of unwillingly shaving his beard after a trimmer malfunction left him with no other option.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2023

He was wearing the same kind of uniform as the first guy but was ten or fifteen years older and a whole lot trimmer.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson