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: a swelling or protuberance like a pimple
Examples of pimple in a Sentence
a painful pimple on his back
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Laura Schober, Health, 9 June 2025
The star ingredient, lady’s mantle, is packed with antioxidants to help calm inflammation (a major plus for breakouts and pimples), while ceramides work to repair the skin barrier and lock in moisture.
—Denise Primbet, Glamour, 28 May 2025
Proactiv Redness Correcting Spot Treatment Proactiv's Redness Correcting Treatment helps correct redness while also treating pimples and acne.
—Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
In language as deft and muscular as Rosa’s team, Drexler captures the scent of the blood and the resin, every wisecrack and sob story, every flake of talc and gob of spit, every pimple and blackhead on the lady wrestlers’ thighs.
—Lauren Elkin, New York Times, 20 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for pimple
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“Pimple.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pimple. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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