sideburns
Example Sentences
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An era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns, it marked the passage from progress to reaction.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
In May 2024, Obeng’s supervisor sent him home to shave his sideburns and then return, according to the filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
This new Oasis scene seems to feature fewer blokes with sideburns, baggy nylon football shirts and those loud burps that follow swiftly-downed cans of Carling.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024
“Lauren is sure she doesn’t know what Gladstone’s sideburns looked like. What did Gladstone do? How racist was he? Does she have a problematic cat? This is perhaps not her most pressing issue.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
A young Donny O’Doyle as Abraham Lincoln, his glued-on beard peeling at the sideburns, while he clutched a young Petey Thunkle by his paint-stained overalls.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
