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

“Now we’re just kind of touching up and finishing the work that needs to be done to ensure that every neighborhood has been cleared,” Poloncarz told The Washington Post on Monday.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022

“Since we have a lot more to worry about right now, I think it’s best we set some protection that will last a long time and only need touching up once in a while.”

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce