How to Use vamp in a Sentence

vamp

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• While the mark of a truly good broadcaster is the ability to vamp through a blowout, this was a step beyond.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 June 2021
• Shot atop a Los Angeles skyscraper, the ultra-glamorous shoot allowed Hudson to vamp it up.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2021
• But vamping it up in the audience, serving drinks and taking Polaroids with people, and playing up this tongue-in-cheek character is super fun for me.
  — Hannah Summerhill, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• Cycling through a series of high boots, Beyoncé vogued and vamped, swaggered and stampeded.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• The satirist aims his ageless wit on a Prohibition-era entertainment industry still vamping its way out of Vaudeville.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• To execute the latter, Soper brings in Pleasure and Idleness, who vamp their way through an insinuating showstopper that rests on a four-note descending bass, in the tradition of the Baroque lament.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Coltrane’s version, by contrast, is a hypnotic, nearly 14-minute-long whirling dervish of a thing, vamping an E minor into E major again and again and again, chanting and droning, propelled by Tyner’s insistent, percussive left hand on the keys.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• But recognition from a vamping artificial neural net is better than nothing.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
• While the mark of a truly good broadcaster is the ability to vamp through a blowout, this was a step beyond.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 June 2021
• Shot atop a Los Angeles skyscraper, the ultra-glamorous shoot allowed Hudson to vamp it up.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2021
• But vamping it up in the audience, serving drinks and taking Polaroids with people, and playing up this tongue-in-cheek character is super fun for me.
  — Hannah Summerhill, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• Cycling through a series of high boots, Beyoncé vogued and vamped, swaggered and stampeded.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• The satirist aims his ageless wit on a Prohibition-era entertainment industry still vamping its way out of Vaudeville.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• To execute the latter, Soper brings in Pleasure and Idleness, who vamp their way through an insinuating showstopper that rests on a four-note descending bass, in the tradition of the Baroque lament.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Coltrane’s version, by contrast, is a hypnotic, nearly 14-minute-long whirling dervish of a thing, vamping an E minor into E major again and again and again, chanting and droning, propelled by Tyner’s insistent, percussive left hand on the keys.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• But recognition from a vamping artificial neural net is better than nothing.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
• While the mark of a truly good broadcaster is the ability to vamp through a blowout, this was a step beyond.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 June 2021
• Shot atop a Los Angeles skyscraper, the ultra-glamorous shoot allowed Hudson to vamp it up.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2021
• But vamping it up in the audience, serving drinks and taking Polaroids with people, and playing up this tongue-in-cheek character is super fun for me.
  — Hannah Summerhill, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• Cycling through a series of high boots, Beyoncé vogued and vamped, swaggered and stampeded.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• The satirist aims his ageless wit on a Prohibition-era entertainment industry still vamping its way out of Vaudeville.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• To execute the latter, Soper brings in Pleasure and Idleness, who vamp their way through an insinuating showstopper that rests on a four-note descending bass, in the tradition of the Baroque lament.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Coltrane’s version, by contrast, is a hypnotic, nearly 14-minute-long whirling dervish of a thing, vamping an E minor into E major again and again and again, chanting and droning, propelled by Tyner’s insistent, percussive left hand on the keys.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• But recognition from a vamping artificial neural net is better than nothing.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
• While the mark of a truly good broadcaster is the ability to vamp through a blowout, this was a step beyond.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 June 2021
• Shot atop a Los Angeles skyscraper, the ultra-glamorous shoot allowed Hudson to vamp it up.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2021
• But vamping it up in the audience, serving drinks and taking Polaroids with people, and playing up this tongue-in-cheek character is super fun for me.
  — Hannah Summerhill, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• Cycling through a series of high boots, Beyoncé vogued and vamped, swaggered and stampeded.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• The satirist aims his ageless wit on a Prohibition-era entertainment industry still vamping its way out of Vaudeville.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• To execute the latter, Soper brings in Pleasure and Idleness, who vamp their way through an insinuating showstopper that rests on a four-note descending bass, in the tradition of the Baroque lament.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023

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vamp

2 of 2 noun

• Each vamp holds one of the hats to have been stuffed with either names or dares.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 8 Nov. 2023
• The vamp, the minor key at the beginning of the song, had been written as two half-notes.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
• The vamp zipper closure on these lug-sole boots give them a trendy feel.
  — Lauren Caruso, CNN Underscored, 27 Oct. 2020
• The key with the 2023 silhouettes is a level of curvature elsewhere in the shoe, whether that's the heel or at the vamp and top line.
  — Marykate Boylan, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2023
• The stitched vamp adds a timeless look that pairs well with almost anything in your suitcase.
  — Maverick Li, menshealth.com, 10 June 2023
• And this time, the bloodsucking vamp is a flamenco dancer.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2022
• Because he’s turned by a goth vamp name Sunday instead.
  — Vulture, 1 Mar. 2023
• Plus, Reginald the Vampire tells the story of a shy teen vamp and Kung Fu kicks right back into action with its season 3 premiere.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• Roberts has also added a new customization feature that allows customers to add words or even full sentences on the front vamp, bottom sole or heel of the shoe.
  — Isiah Magsino, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2021
• The tease also seemed to preview what looked like a music video, with a shot in which Meg bared her vamp fangs again, as well as an image of a bowl of fruit and other totems on an altar.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2023
• For her hair and makeup, Chastain went with sleek chignon and her signature natural vamp.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2023
• Qualley’s white Mary Janes featured a minuscule heel and beading on the vamp, which matched the beaded neckline of her first wedding look, a silky halter sheath dress.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2023
• And with that, my vamp-loving babies, this Interview's just getting started.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• The author laments that Garbo was often ill-served by her material, regularly cast as the sultry vamp or the tragedy queen.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2022
• Full of searing guitar and lyrical references to retribution, the song crescendoed with Carlile pushing her voice to a piercing scream in the final vamp.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2023
• Eddie Murphy plays the titular bloodsucker in this comedic vamp around ’90s Brooklyn.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• Paxton plays this vamp as a floppy-haired hick punk who’s having way too much fun being an undead psychopath on the open range, spending his eternal life wreaking bloody havoc.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2021
• Technically, oxfords are defined by a closed lacing system, which means the shoe’s quarters (those side panels where the eyelets are) are sewn underneath the vamp (the large front portion that goes over your foot).
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• Huston’s witch morphs from statuesque vamp to grotesque goblin with help from an unwieldy and terrifying prosthesis.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
• Edward is an attractive vamp, mostly because he is played by Robert Pattinson.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2021
• In director Tim Burton’s hands, the tone and aesthetic here are just this side of spooky, while Ortega turns the vamp meter all the way up to 11 in her portrayal of a stoic, goth, cool girl who’s impossible not to like.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 23 Nov. 2022
• Vans shoes, especially the Classic Slip-On with its uncluttered vamp, are often treated as a canvas for expression.
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
• To start the festivities, the Only Murders in the Building star went full vamp in a sheer red tube dress with floral appliques, which perfectly matched a pair of strappy black heels with their own red flower embellishments.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 23 July 2023
• While a classic vamp has no reflection in a mirror — either due to the silver backing of the mirror or their lack of a soul — an energy vampire has a decidedly specific one.
  — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2021
• As the big bad vamp's presence becomes more dangerous, Anne and Jakob finally begin to work on their relationship in a movie about understanding as well as bloody mayhem.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2021
• The recent route vamp reduced the frequency of sweeps where relatively little trash was being collected and increased it on routes where relatively large amounts were.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
• The many jobs of the interface manager, drolly acted by Sanna-Kaisa Palo, are to push recalcitrant Wagnerian singers around and vamp for time during set and costume changes.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• The comfy Jade flats, in particular, have an adjustable slingback with a buckle, a rounded pointed toe, impressive arch support, and a low vamp that will pair perfectly with everything from casual jeans to LBDs.
  — Rebecca Carhart, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2022
• The production is uncluttered; the piano refuses to settle on any easily memorable vamp; singer Brandon Markell Holmes unfurls long, wordless ad-libs in daredevil falsetto, content to take his time and play around in the upper register.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2021
• When Claudia temporarily takes command of the voice-over narration, the insatiable baby vamp gleefully positions herself as a humming horror-movie villain, luring a police officer to his death dressed in a sailor blouse with ribbons in her hair.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024