How to Use pompadour in a Sentence

pompadour

noun
  • The crooner was in a bind, with a bum leg and a pompadour in bad need of a trim.
    — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
  • Then he was drafted and sent overseas, his pompadour clipped.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The top half of her hair was then teased and gelled in a pompadour leaning on the left side of her head.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This look is topped with a swirling pompadour, one of the production’s many hideous wigs.
    — Christian Lewis, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Shoes gleamed, teeth glinted, each ponytail and pompadour shone.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • Dirty hair could hide in a pompadour, but a shorter do that hung free would reveal limp or stringy hair.
    — Maria Teresa Hart, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Maduagwu is forty-three, with thick braids held up in a pompadour.
    — Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
  • Her signature short blonde hair was styled into a sleek pompadour.
    — Catherine Santino, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The strange pompadour hairstyle is bringing me right back to the 50s.
    — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Some are adorned with dazzling gold leaf or an extravagant pompadour of hairy black palm.
    — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • No one looks like him, with his thick pompadour, sensuous, downturned lips and doleful eyes.
    — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • One side of her part is slicked down and sleek, while the other has more volume near her face and at the crown for that pompadour effect.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • On one stop of the press tour, Tessa donned a powerful pompadour to match her power suit.
    — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 20 June 2019
  • Hadn’t people seen him, dressed like a 1950s lounge act, complete with a pompadour?
    — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Xiong sports a pompadour and wears a brown jacket, jeans, and white Crocs, with a money purse slung across one shoulder.
    — National Geographic, 12 May 2016
  • Glitter’s matching hair was pulled into a tall pompadour; only two front pieces hanging out on the sides of the face.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Hooded mergansers glided in the water, the male sporting a two-tone pompadour.
    — Betsy Andrews, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Her wavy hair at the front was styled into a tousled pompadour that elevates her simple ponytail.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 27 June 2021
  • Bob had a round face and wore his hair in a modest pompadour that conveyed a striking resemblance to Elvis.
    — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Wade’s gurgling pompadour matches well with his roly-poly physique and go-with-the-flow personality.
    — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The unusual bird had a pompadour of feathers growing vertically from the top of its head.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2020
  • No doubt Union did a killer tribute to the pop-punk princess with her platinum pompadour and slashed white tank in 2018.
    — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The play culminates with Snook in a blond pompadour, and in what almost resembles Elvis drag.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
  • Steven, 48, sits me down in a chair and catches me up on the latest hairstyles for Asian men — pompadours and comb-overs with fades.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • About a dozen workers, all young and in masks that didn’t take away from their shimmering pompadours, ponytails and fades, packed boxes or worked at computers.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Alicia Keys isn't the only one who can fashion her hair into an upside down braided with a French pompadour.
    — Carly Cardellino, Cosmopolitan, 27 Aug. 2013
  • The Boy himself Big Boy, with his trademark pompadour, red and white overalls and slingshot, is beloved by many.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 6 June 2018
  • By the 2000s, her bold lip remained, however her short hair (which saw shapes like pompadours and bobs) grew into her slick-back era.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 17 Mar. 2025
  • This pompadour style for the 2010 Grammys was simply groundbreaking.
    — Janae McKenzie, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The pompadour eventually found its way into the fashion muse’s beauty aesthetic, as did micro bangs, bleach-blond highlights, bowl cuts and bobs.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'pompadour.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: