touching-up

Example Sentences

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Another specialty was touching up photographs of long-ago-missing children, aging them up to the present.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Five will get you ten that she can visit Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s makeup room whenever she needs touching up.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025

On the sunny banks of the Grand Canal in Hangzhou, she and three other women, all over 55, are touching up their make-up and hair.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2024

When the team held its annual photo day last month, many of the players milled about their Cal Lutheran training complex trading jokes and touching up their make-up for the cameras.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

In the tiring-room, Mr. Heminges was putting more white in his beard for his part as Polonius, and Mr. Shakespeare, dressed all in armor, was touching up his ghostly white makeup.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood