Barber Sentence Examples

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  • It was where the barber shop used to be located.

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  • Where else did you go besides the barber shop?

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  • Under their direction, to begin with, a barber shaved him and cut his hair.

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  • He degrades his vizier to the office of barber, taking all his goods in the process; and makes the barber his vizier.

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  • His father, Nathaniel, though a barber, was a man of some education, for Jeremy was "solely grounded in grammar and mathematics" by him.

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  • It's rare to find Barber types in uncirculated bags of quarters.

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  • Signs were hung out on all sides to allure him; some to catch him by the appetite, as the tavern and victualling cellar; some by the fancy, as the dry goods store and the jeweller's; and others by the hair or the feet or the skirts, as the barber, the shoemaker, or the tailor.

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  • In the previous year (39) his mother had been banished by order of her brother Caligula (Gains) on a charge of treasonable conspiracy, and Nero, thus early deprived of both parents, found shelter in the house of his aunt Domitia, where two slaves, a barber and a dancer, began his training.

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  • Spas, nail and hair salons, and barber shops can supply gift certificates for their services.

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  • Although three brothers make up the band, they all owe their big chance to youngest brother Nick Jonas and a little bit of barber shop belting it out.

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  • Good looking, except he uses Fran Tarkenton's barber.

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  • The cords of the skirt are thickly plied and knotted at the bottom, so that the skirt "must have had quite a swing to it" (Barber, p. 57).

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  • The staff may also arrange to have a hair stylist and a barber come into the center to provide services to members.

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  • There was a barber shop and I could see a calendar on the wall but I couldn't quite read it.

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  • He started work at the age of seven in a ropeworks, attending the wheel of a rope-spinner for ten hours a day, and on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings toiled in a barber's shop. He afterwards became a gasworker, and in 1889 he helped to found the National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers, becoming its general secretary.

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  • Some Eastern potentate, possessed of absolute power, covets the vast possessions of his vizier and of his barber.

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  • Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut.

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  • He told his wife that he intended to let the local barber shave him each day.

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  • A very interesting example is the way Isaac, the only white barber, is treated in the sequel.

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  • I think the only solution is to force the barber to grow a beard to save our brains going into meltdown.

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  • Douglas Lindsay is the creator of Barney Thomson; the world's funniest ex barber serial killer.

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  • Weedy barber joins Keep Fit campaign to impress pretty manicurist.

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  • Dr. Mark S Barber, from the University of Southampton, whose interests include the biochemistry of resistance in fungal pathogens.

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  • A barber cuts his customer's heads off and then dismembers himself.

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  • Fence at 52, North Acre Mr Barber reported that he has written to Planning about the revised proposals.

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  • The poor man thought the transistor radio sets were barber's boxes!

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  • Little wonder that unions reacted with an immediate and stern rebuke in a letter from the office of Brendan Barber.

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  • There is even a barber surgeon to give you a shave - or let your blood.

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  • He married Christian Ross in 1712; a few years after he had established himself as a wig-maker (not as a barber, as has been often said) in the High Street, and soon found himself in comfortable circumstances.

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  • New, but destined for big things, is the men-only 316 Barber Spa on Jackson Boulevard.

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  • Visits to 316 Barber come complete with complimentary drinks and use of the billiards table and flat-screen TVs while you wait.

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  • Asking friends and families for recommendations on their favorite salon or barber shop is a great way to help you make the best decision.

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  • Barber shop programs that focus on men's cuts and styles.

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  • Because many African-American men's styles are very short, they require regular touch-ups at the barber shop or salon to keep looking their best.

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  • Beat up leather chairs and a cool atmosphere are a welcome change from the basic barber shop.

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  • It's just dead matter; otherwise going to the barber would be like going to the dentist.

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  • Nick was discovered at the ripe old age of six while he was singing in a local barber shop.

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  • Despite being the youngest, Nick Jonas got a jump start on his brothers in the music industry when he was discovered by a music manager while singing in a barber shop.

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  • Men's salon pedicures – Some barber shops and other salons dedicated to male clientele offer pedicure services just for him.

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  • Maybe one or two more bodies would have made the barber look more of a killer.

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  • Strauss thought the libretto ' The born comic opera - more suited to music than either Figaro or The Barber of Seville ' .

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  • Graham Barber has thoroughly scrutinized the large surviving repertoire of the nineteenth century and selected these works as being fully worthy of resurrection.

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  • The poor man thought the transistor radio sets were barber 's boxes !

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  • Examples of pre-1965 silver coins include the Roosevelt type (1946 to 1964), Barber type (1892 to 1916) and Mercury type (1916-1945).

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  • Obvious examples of surnames based on occupation include names like Baker, Barber, Carpenter, Carver, Painter, Potter, and Shoemaker.

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  • I started to cut mostly men's hair when I became a stylist at Rudy's barber shop on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.

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  • The climate mandarins who once told Meyer to visit the barber are now seeking his advice.

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  • After they gave up, the shop became a barber and hairdresser's.

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  • Lots of good restaurants in Sineu and amazingly a good barber if needed!

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  • He concealed them under a Phrygian cap; but the secret was discovered by his barber, who, being unable to keep it, dug a hole in the ground and whispered into it "Midas has the ears of an ass."

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  • The video interview is entertaining and it 's tremendous to see how well the passage of time has treated Brandon and Barber.

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  • And because his face was not pale, but had that waxen bloom still upon it that belongs to a barber 's dummy.

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  • Barber shops often have the old time feel.

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  • They are typically a male environment and customers tend to form fun, amiable relationships with their barber just as bartenders frequently do with their patrons.

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  • If your style is classic and straightforward, it's doubtful that you'd ever need more than a quality barber.

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  • The shaved looks that West has had on some of his performances and appearances have become popular requests at many barber shops around the country.

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  • If you want to maintain a short, easy hair cut, you may discover that trimmers completely replace your barber or hairstylist.

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  • In fact, the word "figaro" is an ancient European word for barber, but clients will find far more than standard barber shop services at this innovative salon.

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  • In urban, college soaked areas, alternative barber shops and salons are quickly filling up downtown storefronts and alleys.

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  • Trendy hipster barber shops are becoming more and more common.

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  • Ask a barber for help in determining the proper direction to brush the hair.

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  • Because long hair had been popular with women for decades, those wanting to bob their hair began to invade barber shops all across the United States.

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  • Among the most prominent of these men in addition to Brae, Chevalier and Chabannes, were Tristan Lermite, Jean de Daillon, Olivier le Dain (the barber), and after 1472, Philippe de Commines, drawn from the service of Charles the Bold of Burgundy, who became his most intimate adviser and biographer.

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  • After serving his apprenticeship in his native town, he established himself as a barber at Bolton about 1750, and later amassed a little property from dealing in human hair and dyeing it by a process of his own.

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  • Thus, the founder's twelve chief disciples include, besides Brahmans, a weaver, a currier, a Rajput, a Jat and a barber - for, they argue, seeing that Bhagavan, the Holy One (Vishnu), became incarnate even in animal form, a Bhakta (believer) may be born even in the lowest of castes.

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  • His father had a barber 's shop in Covent Garden, his mother came from a line of London butchers.

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  • The scale of social precedence as recognized by native public opinion is concisely reviewed (ib.) as revealing itself" in the facts that particular castes are supposed to be modern representatives of one or other of the original castes of the theoretical Hindu system; that Brahmans will take water from certain castes; that Brahmans of high standing will serve particular castes; that certain castes, though not served by the best Brahmans, have nevertheless got Brahmans of their own whose rank varies according to circumstances; that certain castes are not served by Brahmans at all but have priests of their own; that the status of certain castes has been raised by their taking to infant-marriage or abandoning the remarriage of widows; that the status of others has been modified by their pursuing some occupations in a special or peculiar way; that some can claim the services of the village barber, the village palanquin-bearer, the village midwife, &c., while others cannot; that some castes may not enter the courtyards of certain temples; that some castes are subject to special taboos, such as that they must not use the village well, or may draw water only with their own vessels, that they must live outside the village or in a separate quarter, that they must leave the road on the approach of a highcaste man and must call out to give warning of their approach."

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  • Andy Sackler and Dean responded to a call crosstown at Ralph's Barber Shop, where they found a crowd milling around the sidewalk and a half dozen customers seated inside.

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  • Storriei, from the Silurian (Wenlock) of South Wales, described by Barber, there is no sharp differentiation of the two kinds of tubes; they are rarely observed to branch, except in the gaps, which in this species are not radially directed.

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  • Martin, Hultsch and Cantor took this Ctesibius to be a barber of that name who lived in the reign of Ptolemy Euergetes II.

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  • Barber (acting) .

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  • He fell under the influence of two of his wife's maids of honour in succession, Nelidov and Lapuknin, and of his barber, a Turkish slave named Koroissov.

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