Sentence examples for powdered face from inspiring English sources

The phrase "powdered face" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe someone whose face is covered with a cosmetic powder, often for a specific aesthetic or theatrical effect. Example: "The actress appeared on stage with a powdered face, enhancing her character's ghostly appearance."

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Ms. Clinton was looking polished in a form-fitting black pantsuit, leopard print scarf and powdered face.

It was Sarita Subercaseaux, with her big beehive hairdo, her pink, abundantly powdered face, her blue dress, and her little wedge-heeled shoes.

With her red lips and heavily powdered face, she wears a mask over her mask: we cannot know her, but we, and Sluyters, want to know her — for the pleasure of her ultimately unfathomable nature.

Her powdered face was ghostly white; her lipstick was the color of a maraschino cherry.

She tilted her powdered face skyward, raising one arm to gently cup the pin with her hand.

Dozens of karaoke panegyrics to Bun Rany, a former nurse with a formidably bleached and powdered face, enumerate her good qualities.

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Many have eye make-up and white, powdered faces.

Of heavily arched eye brows, roller curls and powdered faces.

For example, in pre-Revolution 18th Century France, the Parisian lady and her male counterpart both wore heavily powdered faces, painted lips, false hair and wigs, and high heeled shoes.

She powdered her face in the mirror.

He combed his hair in front of a mirror; he powdered his face.

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