How to Use crew cut in a Sentence

crew cut

noun
  • For his act, the stage crew cut an 8-foot-wide hole in the stage floor for a trap door.
    — Gary Stoller, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The boys, in crew cuts and ties, learn in the buildings of the lower campus.
    — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2019
  • His hair was styled into cornrows at the top and a crew cut on the side.
    — Ronald Blum, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
  • The fire crews cut a hole in the building's garage door using a K-12 saw and worked to contain the fire from the inside.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 2 May 2018
  • Call it dapper: Mr. Schreiber, 64, wears his hair in a crew cut and is rarely seen without a coat and tie.
    — New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Nason is pale and of medium build, with a crew cut, a goatee, and blue eyes.
    — Peter Andrey Smith, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2019
  • This is as common as the crew cut of late.
    — Adam Hurly, GQ, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Pete Rose was a 22-year-old rookie, the cocky Cincinnati kid with a crew cut.
    — Ben Walker, Star Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020
  • There was the teenage barman Mikey Reilly with his pink cheeks and sawdust crew cut.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Derek Colling is trim and muscular, with a blond crew cut that was, that day, covered by a dark beanie.
    — Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 21 May 2021
  • With firm compression in every contour of the foot and a classic crew cut, these are the socks for them.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Zibtsev, 59, is lean and lanky, with a heavy gray crew cut that always seems fully grown out.
    — Jane Braxton Little, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The first one not to get a crew cut, the first one to eschew bell bottoms, a clarinet player for the only rock band in South Ozone Park.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Once the design is set, his crew cuts the pieces from flat sheets of metal, bends them, welds all the joints, then grinds the welds smooth and polishes the surface.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
  • Howard, 27, was his opposite: short, with a blond crew cut and tattoos up to his eyebrows.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • Once the crew cut grew back, Isabella started just pulling her hair back into a pony tail.
    — Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Akers has a trim gray mustache, a military crew cut and soft brown eyes that crease at the corners.
    — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Manny had a crew cut, khakis and cargo boots and stood at least six inches above the average Joe.
    — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 17 July 2019
  • New photos of Reeves taken on March 19 show him on set sporting a classic clean crew cut.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The main speaker at the event was a Border Patrol officer named Sergio Tinoco, a man in his late 40s with a wide chest and a crew cut.
    — Cecilia Ballí, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • His latest: a coiffed crew cut showing off some lighter blonde highlights – with hints of his foxy silver strands!
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • His latest: a coiffed crew cut showing off some lighter blonde highlights – with hints of his foxy silver strands!
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • His latest: a coiffed crew cut showing off some lighter blonde highlights – with hints of his foxy silver strands!
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2023
  • His latest: a coiffed crew cut showing off some lighter blonde highlights – with hints of his foxy silver strands!
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • His latest: a coiffed crew cut showing off some lighter blonde highlights – with hints of his foxy silver strands!
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Angelo the barber gave Don a crew cut on the third Saturday of every month.
    — Steve Friedman, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
  • With the same crew cut, Waterson even bears a passing resemblance to the actor.
    — Sandy Thin, CNN, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Hand crew cuts have occurred in waves as penalties for some crimes were reduced, Clinkenbeard said.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
  • For thousands, Gil Thorp is but a crew cut memory, a relic of our bygone youth.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2023
  • His skeleton was found beneath a billboard by work crews cutting grass along the highway.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2019

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