Get ready for the prom

Usage examples of primp.

The little girl was thrilled with the sparkling treasures and immediately began to primp in front of the oval mirror.

A tent flap on the left side of the wagon, away from the campfire, was opened, letting in the sun so the Ranjana could primp before her mirror.

And he was all primped up, too, mon, and he looked slick and shiny like he just came out of the store.

His little girl, his bright golden darling, with some primped and pampered and polished bower lad?

Claire and I had shared the same shoe size, the same taste in music, and the same love of fruity mixed drinks that we consumed in quantity as we primped for our big nights out.

She turned and gazed in the oval mirror above the fireplace, smiling as she primped the back of her hair.

At night she primped more than necessary, in order to make a good impression, and as she joined him downstairs she was rewarded by the way his blue eyes would light up at her appearance.

The person primping before the mirror now was a woman in every sense of the word--no longer an innocent, worldly in truth.

Lowering her voice to a hushed whisper, she inclined her head towards the woman primping on stage.

William smiled at the actors their primping, their practiced, shallow attempts at seduction and eroticism.

She had grown so fat that she could not move, and she spent the day in the notions shop, where there was no longer anything to sell, primping and dressing in finery from the time she awoke with the first roosters until the following dawn, for she slept very little.

He could picture her standing by the window, an impatient look on her face, and he could see her primping in the mirror of the tulipwood dressing table.

On such nights, the dingy dwellings of Spittalfields and Whitechapel still seem to belong to the Huguenot silk-weavers, the prim backstreets of Kensington appear eternally Edwardian, and the houses of the Chelsea embankment, primped with gothic trimmings and standing in Sunday finery like a charabanc of ruddy-faced matrons, remain the province of the Pre-Raphaelites.

Paks snorted, then laughed, remembering the militia primped up in velvets and laces.

Floyt asked as Terran notables straightened their sashes and primped their hairdos, cleared their throats and wiped sweat from their palms.