How to Use drag queen in a Sentence

drag queen

noun
  • Us drag queens could not be you.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
  • What’s your least favorite type of drag queen?
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The bright pink rolling kitchen gets its name from Hariprasad’s drag queen moniker.
    — Kevin Gray, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2020
  • And there was no such thing as a drag queen who’d never set foot in a drag bar.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • There is no one who knows makeup the way a drag queen knows makeup.
    — Taylor Alxndr, Them, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The drag queen had a finger wave in her hair and a tuba on her lap.
    — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2022
  • Some watched drag queens perform to music.
    — Michelle Cruz, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In high school, his best friend was a football player and drag queen.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
  • And the people who change what people think are artists — and drag queens!
    — Araceli Cruz, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2020
  • She was supposed to perform in three hours, and the drag queen still wasn’t sure what to do.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Why the sudden push in the house to ban drag queens from library story hours?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • Sashay on the coast with drag queens at this loud, proud celebration.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 30 May 2026
  • All of a sudden these drag queens come in, and one of them dressed as Elsa.
    — Megan Johnson, ajc, 14 Mar. 2018
  • There were moments that some of the moms were on all fours on their chairs and drag queens were spanking them.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
  • And, by the way, drag queens make the world a better place, more beautiful and fun.
    — Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • There’ve been so many people who've profited off drag queens, but don’t do drag.
    — EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • There are the drag queen shows with children, and there's pushback on us for wanting to stop that.
    — Elizabeth Heckman, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The bus driver was asleep at the wheel, and the drag queens in the back were driving the season.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Despite the bomb threat at the Louisville event, the drag queen story time went ahead as planned.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Neldin Molina says the breasts of a drag queen proved quite dangerous.
    — Josh Magness, miamiherald, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Where queerness was not demonized, as some of the models were drag queens?
    — Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
  • For these drag queen guests, Daisy plans a drag show with Keith and Gary.
    — Emma Soren, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The parade and drag queen shows are among the get-out-the-vote efforts planned for this weekend and next week.
    — Chris Mayhew, The Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Be a larger-than-life drag queen, but keep it family-friendly.
    — Nina West september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Plenty of drag queens can sing, and plenty of drag queens who can’t sing have released songs anyway.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The restaurant had lost its luster over its 17 years of drag queen dinners-and-shows.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
  • There's at least one thing that does impress Shania Twain much — and that's drag queens!
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Ravena, a drag queen, moved here 15 years ago from the north-eastern state of Bahía.
    — Sarah Esther Maslin, 1843, 4 July 2019
  • The judge would be none other than her friend and drag queen Trixie Mattel.
    — Stacy Lambe, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Drevet will be joined by Lisa Rinna and various drag queens.
    — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025

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