beauty queen

Example Sentences

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Carrie Prejean Boller, a former beauty queen and faithful Trump supporter, has found herself at the center of an explosive conservative fight.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

Nigeria's newest beauty queen said she had extended her stay in the country of her father's birth.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024

In a red-white-and-blue outfit, high-heeled boots and a pageant sash that reads “Cowboy Carter,” she’s a beauty queen and a white-hatted heroine claiming her nation — her country, in both senses.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2024

A high school teacher and former beauty queen, Grinstead vanished in 2005 from her home in rural Irwin County.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023

And also because the vague suspicions — expectations, really — that I’d been forming all day, as Alice tried to transform me into a beauty queen, were so far wide of the mark.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer