How to Use wig in a Sentence

wig

noun
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  • She was wearing a blonde wig.
  • Joel sews down the artist’s wigs across the perimeter of her head.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Cut a hole in the top of a tinsel wig and place it over the pumpkin's stem.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Jamie Lee Curtis is the kind of friend willing to share the wig off her head.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The bear wears a gold dress and matching eye shadow with a blond wig.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In recent years, Welch launched a wig line, and starred in the sitcom Date My Dad.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The queens are costumed in green gowns with red wigs, and of course, cowboy boots.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Think '80s rock band wigs, chains, leather, and heavy eye makeup.
    — Elizabeth Denton, Seventeen, 28 June 2023
  • That changed on Halloween when the actor stepped out in a curled red wig with thick bangs.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In it, a young man — allegedly Lee as a teenager — wore a miniskirt, pearls and a wig.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • And that blonde wig is just so well done by our hair department.
    — Jennifer Ferrise, ELLE, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Gosling decided to bleach his hair at the last minute, after a wig didn’t look right.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But if a bad wig is so obvious, then why are there so many of them out there?
    — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Wearing red latex and a blonde wig, Jenner is out of this world.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Their makeup ebbs away in the flow of the water, and strands of hair — natural or from their wigs — sticks to their cheeks.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • The accessory that really put this look over the edge was the brown wig.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Both witnesses told police the wig was red, the motion states.
    — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • That night, Van Oort had on a sleek black wig and a cape; the board’s clerk wore a cheerful yellow flower in her hair.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
  • And he’s dressed all weird in a black vest, no shirt, boxing shorts, boxing shoes and this Shirley Temple wig.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2023
  • To accomplish the look, Friend created the locs on a custom wig made by Natasha Lasky.
    — Faith Cummings, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Lambert then decided to have a little fun with it and tried on the wig herself.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In the photo, Lizzo dons a platinum-blonde curled wig just like Miss Piggy's, plus a pink pig nose and ears.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Plenty of green wigs could be spotted around the arena as fans showed their support for O’Malley.
    — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Police did find Russell’s phone, Apple watch, Air Pods, a hat and her wig.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 21 July 2023
  • There are bars of gold and reams of cash, multiple wigs, a cache of weapons and a giant sledgehammer.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 7 July 2023
  • Matthews donned a black-and-white wig for her take on Cruella de Vil while Mahomes dressed as a dog catcher.
    — Jacklyn Krol, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Witnesses said the suspects were both men, but one was wearing a long, black wig.
    — Henri Hollis, ajc, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Singer and guitarist Patrick Stump wore fake muscles and a curly-haired wig, while bassist Pete Wentz rocked an eye patch.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The look, which was seemingly a wig, was also a much darker shade of hair color.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Harcourt donned a wig to channel Diana in the opening scene of this 2011 Hallmark movie.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023

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