vamp

Example Sentences

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The former Australian Paralympic swimmer wanted to vamp up her headshot and uploaded a full-length photo of her and prompted it really specifically that she was missing her left arm from below the elbow.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

“I say in my act: ‘Catherine, you keep your Oscar, I’ll keep my vamp.’

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023

The show went so smoothly that it ran 20 minutes short, and Lewis, the host again, had to vamp desperately to try to hit the TV network’s scheduled “out.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2023

A child vamp can never do anything fully, trapped in a body that cannot hold the experiences of their brain.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2022

The three hops of the bunny became three struts of a vaudeville vamp.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli