How to Use relaxer in a Sentence

relaxer

noun
  • No muscle relaxers were strong enough to dull it.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2025
  • So the opening trot was a muscle relaxer, a warm-up to this.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • Add relaxers into the mix, and your hair can appear even thinner.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 29 May 2026
  • This misconception is part of the reason these women held on to their relaxers for so long.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 29 May 2026
  • Before her big chop, Randall had already scaled back her relaxer touch-ups to twice a year instead of every few months.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 29 May 2026
  • Chemical hair relaxers also pose risks.
    — Claretta Bellamy, NBC news, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Hair damage from relaxers isn’t exclusive to people in their 50s and older.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 29 May 2026
  • Like Wiley, many Black women in their 50s and beyond reach this same breaking point and choose to ditch their relaxer.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 29 May 2026
  • Dyes, relaxers, perms, and heat styling all contribute to the breaking of chemical bonds in the hair, which permanently change the structure.
    — Hendra Jacobs, Allure, 23 Dec. 2025
  • For women who have spent decades wearing relaxers, that shift can feel especially vulnerable.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 29 May 2026
  • Before long, the protagonist has slipped a little muscle relaxer into Vlad’s whisky.
    — Meg Walters, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Unichem Pharmaceuticals has recalled one lot of a muscle relaxer because the pills in the bottle might not be the muscle relaxer on the label.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • No longer being completely bound to a relaxer, these four women began navigating the fun, at times frustrating, terrain of natural hair care.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 29 May 2026
  • Ahead, pro hairstylists advise on how to transition out of a relaxer while minimizing breakage and maintaining confidence in your hair.
    — Janell M. Hickman-Kirby, Allure, 18 May 2026
  • Fischnaller immediately flew home to upstate New York, hopped up on painkillers and muscle relaxers that did little to quell her discomfort.
    — Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • What turned the switch on, improbably, was Klonopin, a widely available muscle relaxer commonly used to treat seizure disorders and panic attacks.
    — Casey Ross, STAT, 19 May 2026
  • In 2023, the FDA proposed a ban on using formaldehyde in chemical relaxers.
    — Claretta Bellamy, NBC news, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Westmoreland’s toxicology report shows her prescribed gabapentin for pain, along with antihistamines and a muscle relaxer her family did not recognize.
    — Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Chemical relaxers—another product commonly used to style Black hair—that permanently straighten curly or kinky hair have previously been linked to higher risk of uterine cancer.
    — Aude Konan, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Marino unlawfully prescribed more than 1 million pills of oxycodone and hydrocodone, both opioids, as well as carisoprodol, a muscle relaxer commonly known by the brand name Soma, prosecutors said.
    — Evan MacDonald, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2026
  • Wise led a study published Wednesday in the American Journal of Epidemiology on hair relaxer use in relation to the incidence and growth of uterine fibroids.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • These creators made that knowledge far more accessible, producing educational content on everything from building a washday routine and transitioning from relaxers to mastering styles like twist-outs.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 14 May 2026
  • But just one month later, Sun recalled 135,000 vials of vecuronium bromide, a muscle relaxer used during surgery, saying glass particles had been found and could cause life-threatening blood clots.
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The study authors also acknowledged the potential role of higher rates of uterine fibroids, as well as endocrine-disrupting chemicals, such as those found in hair relaxers, and exposure to environmental contaminants that other studies have shown is higher in Black populations.
    — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2026

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