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

Monochrome images taken in 1973 show London Victoria railway station frozen in time - an era of large sideburns and public lockers, platform tickets and boat trains to France and Belgium.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2025

However, he redeems himself as an administrator by writing impenetrable new rules on the size of officers’ sideburns and mustaches.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

“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

He even painted in the mutton- chop sideburns with a grease pencil.

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky