vamp
Example Sentences
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The former Australian Paralympic swimmer wanted to vamp up her headshot and uploaded a full-length photo of her and prompted it really specifically that she was missing her left arm from below the elbow.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
On “Peaches,” Stanley’s vibrato-heavy saxophone trembles in harmony with a wavy synth, over minimalist drum programming and an undressed two-chord vamp.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
The show went so smoothly that it ran 20 minutes short, and Lewis, the host again, had to vamp desperately to try to hit the TV network’s scheduled “out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
Why they're a standout: Sure, Kirsten Dunst played the scene-stealing child vamp in the big-screen version of Anne Rice's novel, but Bass makes this Claudia her own.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2022
Then she dodged away, and I had to chase her around the cairn, both of us laughing, Emma ducking out of view only to pop up again and vamp for the camera.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
