MOUSTACHE in a Sentence

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1. He was a tall, slender young man with a light brown moustache.
2. The man, without answering, began to twirl the ends of his moustache.
3. The bass, Mr. Duggan, was a slender young man with a scattered black moustache.
4. He had a big face which resembled a young ox's face in expression, staring blue eyes and a grizzled moustache.
5. He took the greatest care of his fair silken hair and moustache and used perfume discreetly on his handkerchief.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOUSTACHE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
moustache
 n.  hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  His father was standing before the dressing-table, examining his hair and face and moustache with great care, craning his neck across the water-jug and drawing it back sideways to see the better.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  A broad-shouldered student with a moustache was cutting in the letters with a jack-knife, seriously.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  He grew excited as he spoke, and walked about the room pulling his great white moustache and grasping anything on which he laid his hands as though he would crush it by main strength.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  He seemed to be fairly old for his moustache was ashen-grey.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
6  He was about twenty-six years of age, with a soft, light brown moustache and rather innocent-looking grey eyes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
7  He took the greatest care of his fair silken hair and moustache and used perfume discreetly on his handkerchief.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
8  He had a hanging face, dark wine-coloured, with fair eyebrows and moustache: his eyes bulged forward slightly and the whites of them were dirty.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
9  He was a stout gentleman and he wore a brown hard hat; he had a square red face and a greyish moustache.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In CLAY
10  Maria, remembering how confused the gentleman with the greyish moustache had made her, coloured with shame and vexation and disappointment.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In CLAY
11  On his long and rather large head grew dry black hair and a tawny moustache did not quite cover an unamiable mouth.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
12  He was a tall, slender young man with a light brown moustache.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
13  He had a big face which resembled a young ox's face in expression, staring blue eyes and a grizzled moustache.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
14  The bass, Mr. Duggan, was a slender young man with a scattered black moustache.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
15  The man, without answering, began to twirl the ends of his moustache.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
Example Sentence:
1  A compact man with a trim moustache, Rouse builds high-end spec houses by day and high-flying rockets at night.