How to Use beauty queen in a Sentence

beauty queen

noun
  • Our main job is not to wear a swimsuit or to look like a beauty queen.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • But a decades-old case of small-town beauty queen murders might cost them their lives.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Take a look through the gallery above to see photos of the Texas beauty queen.
    — Daniela Sternitzky-Di Napoli, Houston Chronicle, 26 June 2018
  • Around the region Lebanon has a new beauty queen for the first time in four years.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 25 July 2022
  • Bryant rose to fame as a pop singer and Oklahoma beauty queen.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Hail the beauty queen Some of the best beauty products for moms are made by moms.
    — Gretta Monahan, Boston Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • At just four-years old, North West has become a beauty queen in her own right.
    — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Her hair and makeup were styled to beauty queen perfection.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • But while the beauty queens are not real, the $5,000 cash prize is.
    — Theara Coleman, theweek, 21 June 2024
  • Her father was a lawyer and politician and her mother, a former beauty queen.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • And this beauty queen isn't about to let a pandemic get between her and her eyelash curler.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Look out beauty queens, Willowdean Dickson is about to take the pageant world by storm!
    — Megan Stein, Country Living, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The film opens with the former beauty queen scrubbing a toilet at a barbecue joint.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Gellar played a local beauty queen who gets wrapped up in the murder cover-up at the center of the film.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Seraphina is a 1-year-old beauty queen, looking for playful pals to run, romp and snuggle with.
    — Arika Herron, Axios, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Kryst's family is asking for privacy in wake of the late beauty queen's death.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 30 Jan. 2022
  • O'Connor is not the only beauty queen who has renounced her title in recent months.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025
  • As the former beauty queen walked along the side of the dark road to her parents’ house, the unthinkable happened.
    — Kc Baker, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
  • An autopsy revealed that the slain beauty queen died of strangulation and a blow to the head.
    — Fox News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • As a condition of her bail, the former beauty queen has to check in with authorities three times a week.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • But while the former beauty queen Brown pulls that look off with ease, she’s shown a willingness to move beyond it.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Amber Heard has come a long way from her days as an aspiring beauty queen growing up in Texas.
    — Katya Foreman | Wwd, latimes.com, 15 May 2018
  • Through This shows a photo of a beauty queen complete with a crown and feathered blonde hair, but mascara running down her face.
    — Lisawhill, Longreads, 9 July 2019
  • The beauty queen was fatally shot in the head by a round from an assault rifle, and one of her friends was shot in the leg, officials said.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The story was made for the tabloids—Temer was seventy-five years old, and his wife, a former beauty queen, was thirty-two.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Even though these beauty queens are not real women, there is a real cash prize of $5,000 for the winner.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 9 June 2024
  • The goal is to allow judges and the audience to learn additional details about the beauty queens who have made it to the second round.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Her father, Kian Teik, was a lawyer and politician, and her mother, Janet, a former beauty queen.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Clooney and Zeidler's mother was a beauty queen–turned–city councilwoman, while their father worked as a news anchor.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Six-year-old child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her family’s home.
    — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020

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