How to Use airbrush in a Sentence

airbrush

1 of 2 noun
  • To fake the airbrush vibe, grab a makeup sponge and dap on the polish.
    — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The job of an airbrush painter is part graffiti artist and part sketch artist.
    — Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • It can be created with a makeup sponge or an airbrush.
    — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
  • There are a few tattoo booths — not airbrush tattoos, the real thing.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The event will feature free ice cream, airbrush tattoos and live music.
    — Tyler Quattrin, Twin Cities, 9 June 2026
  • And a special touch with perspective, detail and an airbrush.
    — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 20 Aug. 2017
  • The airbrush effect is thanks to a blend of polymers that reduce the appearance of pores and fine lines.
    — Alyssa Morin, InStyle, 3 July 2026
  • The airbrush effect is thanks to a blend of polymers that reduce the appearance of pores and fine lines.
    — Alyssa Morin, InStyle, 5 Mar. 2026
  • By high school, Luna was painting designs with an airbrush on clothing.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Children will enjoy Christmas crafts and a balloon and airbrush artist.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Leave it to former House speaker John Boehner to drop the airbrush.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Benefit's blurring face primer for airbrushed skin This stuff is like a real-time airbrush for your face.
    — Jessica Teich, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Keratin also protects hair from heat damage from blow-dryers, flat irons or hot airbrushes.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Mechanical bull rides and airbrush face painting will be available for $4 each.
    — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 4 May 2023
  • Several Idaho airbrush and pinstripe artists will sell garage art signs, license plates, etc.
    — Michelle Jenkins, idahostatesman, 8 June 2017
  • Then, using the contour lines as a guide, von Allmen would spend weeks using an airbrush to shade the hillsides with a fine mist of ink.
    — National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2016
  • There are nagging questions, such as how many trips to the tanning bed (running in and out at lunchtime, say) or whether to go for airbrush tanning or spraying.
    — Alison Rose, Town & Country, 16 Dec. 2012
  • Guests will also have the option to customize their merchandise at an airbrush station outside the truck.
    — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Once the mask is primed and a base coat applied — usually white — the painter draws the artwork with an airbrush, pinstripe brush or similar fine tool.
    — Pat Borzi, New York Times, 13 May 2017
  • Thirteen male models were given a stripe of custom lime green paint across their eyes using a Temptu airbrush device.
    — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Along with a solid base coat of choice, aura nails consist of gradients created with an airbrush or with blooming gel polish.
    — Chelsea Avila, Allure, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Struzan's work came to be defined by his extensive use of the airbrush, creating a soft, warm glow that gave his style a grand, timeless quality.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The kit comes with a handheld airbrush compressor and its components, and air pods for foundation, bronzer, blush, and highlighter.
    — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 2 Oct. 2019
  • So, unlike many oxygen facials, which mainly just blow oxygen at your face with an airbrush gun, this treatment uses your body’s own oxygen to make skin magic.
    — Leah Wyar, Cosmopolitan, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The free event will host live music on the main stage, an artisan market with local vendors, free face painting and airbrush tattoos, food trucks and a beer garden.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • This airbrush design on a long square nail comprises a mix of French-tip auras, clear blobs, and 3D florals for a fun and funky design.
    — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Your skin will experience a bit of plumping from the airbrush polymers that are infused into the formula, which is a welcome side effect.
    — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2022
  • With an airbrush borrowed from his job at an ad agency, Man Ray would blast droplets of gouache onto board or heavy paper and use stencils to organize the spray.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • There will be carnival games, inflatable children’s obstacle courses, a balloon twister, and an airbrush tattoo artist.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
  • One of the most common sunless tanning treatments is spray tanning, when a tanning formula is sprayed on a client either by a machine or by a technician via airbrush.
    — Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 17 July 2019

airbrush

2 of 2 verb
  • That photograph must have been airbrushed.
  • Twigs donned a snake airbrushed on her body and frosty pink makeup.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Its eyes are airbrushed in shadows, ringed by a white seam, like a solar eclipse.
    — Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
  • One man, with his hand over his crotch, was airbrushed out in some reproductions.
    — Washington Post, latimes.com, 5 May 2018
  • The most talked-about teen influencer in the world doesn't airbrush her photos.
    — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 3 July 2019
  • The silver base makes neon airbrushing even more eye-catching.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 1 June 2026
  • In death, there is often a rush to canonize the deceased, airbrush away all their faults and sins.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • More chains are adding plus sizes, using models with diverse body types or shunning airbrushing in ads.
    — Sarah Halzack | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • This multi-peptide serum is packed with a variety of them, all with the goal of giving skin that airbrushed glow.
    — Neha Tandon, womenshealthmag.com, 1 May 2023
  • And it only sprays when pointed downward, so no airbrushing the walls either.
    — Anja Webb, Parents, 24 June 2026
  • These aura nails were airbrushed with orange and pink to create a dynamic and vibrant set.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Markle confesses that one of her photoshoot pet peeves is when the freckles that dot her nose are retouched and airbrushed away.
    — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • An artist airbrushed tattoos of mermaids and butterflies on torsos and biceps.
    — Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Trump has, meanwhile, launched a new effort to airbrush his own disastrous neglect of the crisis while in office.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
  • There are boys in T-shirts airbrushed with fighters’ faces or in memoriams for family members.
    — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Guests also received complimentary bandanas, hats and t-shirts, which were airbrushed on-site by an artist.
    — Matt Tighe, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The government can’t airbrush history or erase women’s bodies from it.
    — NBC News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • In a world that places a premium on looking perfect, even the tiniest body blemish gets airbrushed or filtered out of photos.
    — Julia Naftulin, Health.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Kabuki allusions came with vivid pigments airbrushed around eyes and cheekbones, edged in contrasting tones.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 14 May 2017
  • By airbrushing a small circle in the center of each nail, you're left with a beautiful gradient design.
    — Tasha Nicole Smith, ELLE, 26 July 2023
  • Get the diffusion by airbrushing on the white, or using a clean makeup sponge to blend the two colors while the polishes are wet.
    — Taylor Augustin Littlejohn, InStyle, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Meanwhile, hydrolyzed collagen helps airbrush out any fine lines, and caffeine shakes out that heavy feeling on your lids from an early morning.
    — Sam Peters, ELLE, 14 Nov. 2022
  • His work speaks of all sorts of influences, from the Franco-Belgian school to manga to steampunk to airbrush.
    — Andrew A. Smith Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Club Kid, a winning and clever film, does some Hollywood airbrushing to make things blend together.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
  • One trick people may not realize about the animal is they are airbrushed before they are finished, Wilson said.
    — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Now airbrushing, distorting and editing photos isn't just for celebritities and models, but the mass market as well.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 July 2014
  • There's no shame in sometimes using Facetune or other airbrushing apps to enhance your selfies, but what if that was all your selfies, all the time?
    — Emily Wang, Allure, 28 Sep. 2018
  • Jameela Jamil is known for not taking any BS and calling other celebrities out for airbrushing their photos.
    — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Kourtney Kardashian, for example, said that a tabloid airbrushed her postbaby body.
    — Hallie Levine, Redbook, 14 Mar. 2011
  • There is nothing pitying and also nothing airbrushed in the pictures—just the occasional haze of a misty morning or the blurry tremor of a burning brush pile.
    — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 9 May 2026

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