Sentence examples for put lipstick on from inspiring English sources

He was very adamant about telling it like it is: 'Don't put lipstick on the pig.' " The General's relationship with Bush proved to be one of the easiest to manage.

"You can't put lipstick on a pig".

You can't put lipstick on this idea.

Shorten opined that you can't put lipstick on an idea.

"I put lipstick on a pig," he said.

"If you put lipstick on a pig, it is still a pig.

We're not trying to sugarcoat things, or put lipstick on a pig, or anything like that".

"You can't put lipstick on a pig and hope it's going to look good".

A good portion of them are trying, as they say, to put lipstick on the pig.

"Nicole," he said, "is just trying to put lipstick on a corpse".

She put lipstick on her sister's lips, then made tiny circles on her cheeks.