Sentence examples for crimper from inspiring English sources
noun
Small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
Not every day does the Prime Minister ask for help with a high-profile speech from a humble crimper.
Also she used that as-seen-on-TV hair crimper, I think, along with some Manic Panic.
She rolls out the dough to a sturdy thickness before cutting it with a pastry crimper, which results in sawtooth edges on top.
"It is good!" Ms. Lamarre might be so bullish on perms because, when she came of age circa 1999, super-straight hair, as worn by Gwyneth Paltrow, was in vogue, the flatiron having at least temporarily superseded the crimper.
The veteran crimper, from St Kew, said: "I've been making them for years and years.
Why did she let the useless crimper do that?
Coming the day after the notorious menu at the Liberal fundraising dinner that boasted "Julia Gallard Kentucky friend quail: small breasts, huge thighs and a big red box", it all evoked a right-wing fantasy of a pre-feminist Australia populated by limp-wristed crimpers and sheilas who knew their place.
There are scrimshaw pie crimpers, swan soup tureens and inkwells shaped like a mandolin, a peacock, a shoe.
Pro crimpers Denise McAdam and Alain Pichon set "architecture" as the first challenge, so if you've ever fancied sticking a scraggy London Eye or beaded Tyne Bridge on your head then you'll get some tips on how to do it.
My own letter might begin: "Young Barbara, put down those crimpers, turn down that Cure album and LISTEN TO ME!" There would be careers advice: "Why don't you quit churning out those tatty music fanzines and invent the iPod?" or: "Ever fancied writing a book about a school for wizards?".
But just for now, you might want to hold off with the crimpers and the glitter kohl.
