WIG in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for WIG, such as:
1. The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.
2. She wore a powdered wig, as was the fashion of the day.
3. It will be good for my vanity, I was getting too proud of my wig.
4. She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the baby wig.
5. The mannequin is dressed in brunet wig, glasses and a red business suit.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WIG
wig
 n.  hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
 n.  British slang for a scolding
Classic Sentence:
1  It was the day of the week on which Mr. Sharp went out to get his wig curled; so Mr. Mell, who always did the drudgery, whatever it was, kept school by himself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
2  Adams is going to be called to the bar almost directly, and is to be an advocate, and to wear a wig.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
3  The old clerk with the wig, whose name was Mr. Tiffey, had been down on business several times in the course of his career, and had on each occasion penetrated to the breakfast-parlour.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
4  'If I am reserved to wear a wig, I am at least prepared, externally,' in allusion to his baldness, 'for that distinction.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
5  Now issued black man in fuzzy wig; coffee-coloured ditto in silver turban; they signify presumably the League of.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
6  Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
7  That's a Kneller, I'll swear, that lady in the blue silk over yonder, and the stout gentleman with the wig ought to be a Reynolds.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
8  The tunic soon disappeared under a long cassock, as did his hair under a priest's wig; the three-cornered hat over this effectually transformed the count into an abbe.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 82. The Burglary.
9  Monte Cristo took off the wig which disfigured him, and let fall his black hair, which added so much to the beauty of his pallid features.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 83. The Hand of God.
10  It will be good for my vanity, I was getting too proud of my wig.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
11  When she stood up a pink-dressed figure, wearing a curly golden wig and an old-fashioned straw sunbonnet, with black pencilled eyebrows and cheeks delicately rouged and powdered, was discovered.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  Old Tikhon, wearing a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVI
13  She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the baby wig.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
14  But we have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and once by paint.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
15  Beside himself with rage, he prepared to give Selifan the wigging of his life, and, meanwhile, waited impatiently to hear what the delinquent had got to say in his defence.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  Although he carried, under his wig, a perfectly bald and shiny head, he had only reached middle age.
2  It was the wig this woman wore during a two-day robbery across New York that earned her the name blonde bandit.
3  The mannequin is dressed in brunet wig, glasses and a red business suit.
4  The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.
5  She wore a powdered wig, as was the fashion of the day.
6  Such scenes were once unthinkable in England's courtrooms, where magistrates can be called "your worship" and some judges sport gowns and wigs.