How To Use Grimace In A Sentence
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Rosie decides that a maternity fashion show highlighting her latest collection would be the perfect shower event because that is in no way a conflict of interest, and we soon learn the real motivation behind this choice -- a model casting montage in which LT wears a sequined capelet the color of Grimace from McDonaldland and tells the models to "serve and deliver.
Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 5: Serve and Deliver
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It is a world in which the grimace is often more eloquent than the phrase.
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He sat up and grimaced a little because his back ached, his entire body was stiff and his feet were cold.
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His expression twisted into a grimace as the bone dust began to fly.
Harvest
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He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do
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But no matter how skilfully it's done, it shows somewhere: the stretched grimace, the unblinking eyes or in the body below, if it hasn't been done to match.
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The blow dryer slipped out of his hands and I grimaced as the hot air blasted directly on my face.
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She was gritting her teeth, making frightful grimaces, snarling, uttering sharp and continuous cries that sounded like "kh-ah! kh-ah!
CHAPTER III
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He grimaced at the thought of eating dehydrated food; I described the simple pleasure of drinking ice-cold water from a mountain stream.
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The man's face is set in a displeased grimace, his brow furrowed in certain displeasure.
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Landon cracked his eyes open and grimaced in pain from the pounding headache; like an incessant jackhammer drilling into his skull at all angles.
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An icy blast of wind from the Arctic swirled down the hillside and froze the skin on his face. He grimaced, hunched his shoulders, and trudged on.
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Helen made a grimace of disgust when she saw the raw meat.
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His facial features can shift in a twitch from the innocent blankness of a choirboy during the sermon to the frantic grimaces of an axe-wielding berserker.
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She grimaced, then glanced over her shoulder to make sure no one else was listening.
Uprising
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He grimaced slightly, obviously expecting no answer to his rhetorical question.
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He grimaced, his mind dwelling on the premature thoughts that brewed inside him.
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cried Roderick, pushing aside his half-eaten porridge with a disdainful grimace.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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You'll feel every punch, grimace at every brutal knock-down and celebrate every win as if it were your last in EA's fantastic boxing video game.
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It is a sweet and pretty countenance that can become contorted into a Munchian shriek, a child's importunate obstinacy, a beleaguered housewife's exasperation, a hectoring soldier's grimace, or anything else.
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Deuce managed to keep a wry grimace from his face, just barely.
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The thought causes Julia to grimace for a moment until a figure swings round in front of her.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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I have a cast-iron stomach that can cope admirably with wound exudate conversations whilst eating brie and cranberry sandwiches, but if that's just made you grimace and you are of a delicate and refined disposition you may want to stop reading this blog post right this minute because I know it's not my usual fare.
52 entries from October 2006
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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He had a grimace for a face, and a scar across his cheek.
WALKING THE BIBLE
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She clenched her teeth and grimaced as if pronouncing the word orphan filled her mouth with castor oil.
Brooke
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He grins and he grimaces.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stomach grumbling, I looked up at the clock - It was about noon - grimaced, and grabbed a banana off the counter, padding upstairs.
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They grimaced and gulped and fidgeted from foot to foot.
End of Time
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The reporters kind of grimaced, not wanting to be the focus of the President's wrath.
Two Presidents and Two Lies
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I hitched my pack into a more comfortable position and grimaced.
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That's a perfectly good wish plumb wasted," said Penfield, refilling both glasses, his features twisted in the wriest of grimaces.
The Day of Days An Extravaganza
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I open the fridge and grimace at the stench from a bowl of tuna and sweetcorn, which Adrian has left uncovered for three days.
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Hallie gave him a quick, insincere smile that looked more like a grimace.
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Some people gurn and grimace and pull strange faces whenever a camera is waved near them, as if being caught without making a face would be somehow sneaky.
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Handsome production design and pretty faces even after being ‘broken’ by the secret police, some of the drama students remain fresh-faced with a tiny bloody streak and a grimace are the chief assets here, this is pageantry of the Hollywood kind if you go for that sort of thing.
Row Three » Welcome Year of the Rat - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions
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A bonze asserts that Fo is a God, that he was foretold by fakirs, that he was born of a white elephant, and that every bonze can by certain grimaces make a Fo.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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And he grimaces in pain as he steps off a bus taking them to the handover area.
The Sun
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I barely had time to parry her first blow with the shield before she was coming around again, sword raised and teeth bared in a white grimace.
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Stoic and economical in his movements, expressing emotional pain through tight-lipped grimaces and squinty eyes, Mortenson is the perfect cowboy hero.
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And seeing those rooms through her eyes, with their rugs and fireplaces and bric-a-brac, Alessandro grimaced and bowed his head.
Three Stages of Amazement
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Adam's mouth was twisted into something between a smile and a grimace of pain.
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Some of the sticky substance stuck on her shoe and she grimaced in disgust.
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His grimaces, the faces he pulls, were beyond anything you could imagine.
Christianity Today
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He grimaced slightly, obviously expecting no answer to his rhetorical question.
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The rough folds of skin at the corners of the familiar eyes became taut and she grimaced in pitiful disgust.
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Lissa grimaced as if at the rasp of fingernails on a blackboard.
VITALS
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The effect is weird, and weirder still is the conjunction of the figure's grimace with her pigeon-toed posture.
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One of my sisters-in-law, a former pro photographer, took my author photos and made me giggle helplessly as she did it, instead of freezing up with my most camera-shy grimace.
The scary bits at SF Novelists
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Regan attempted a smirk, but had to settle for a grimace when the effort made his face flare in pain again.
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There was a brief moment where he could not hide his wince, his small grimace of pain.
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I grimaced and turned around starting to feel the winter freeze prickle the exposed back of my neck.
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His face twisting into a grimace, he managed to bring his legs onto the bed and Francesca covered him with the blankets.
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I drank and grimaced at the tartness, the tang of spice, but it helped settle my stomach.
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Kirk saw her grimace slightly—an expression of unbearable pain in a Vulcan—as she leaned into the force field, trying to push her way through.
DARK VICTORY
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Watch her grimace and gurn her way through series three.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cornelia grimaced in agreement, but her expression cleared as she identified the voices.
A Wicked Gentleman
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But for the present, brazenface, leave off your grimaces, and listen well to what I am going to tell you.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish
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She noticed, trailing from the corner of the frozen grimace of his mouth, a trickle of mealy yellow liquid that was drying into a crust on his cheek.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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Boat to fetch her away, and brought her aboard, and stripped her of her rich garments and sat facing her, drawing ugsome grimaces at her; and she thought she knew that her friends were all dead and gone, and she had none to pity or defend her.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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She tried to smile warmly at him, but it turned more into a grimace, so she sufficed with a simple wave before walking on.
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She grimaced and swept up her hair in a messy bun with one hand, whilst prodding me on the back with the other hand.
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He often makes little grimaces as if he were receiving an electric shock.
The Sun
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And he grimaces in pain as he steps off a bus taking them to the handover area.
The Sun
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She grimaced as she held the sharp blade of the knife against her hands.
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Rusty ran a hand through his tangled mop of hair and grimaced.
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Ty had already grunted and sunk down, clutching at the arrow in her shoulder with a grimace of pain.
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As your face scrunches up in a grimace of the most agonizing of all pain, you'll be exercising the vital muscles in and around your schnozz without even knowing it!
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There is a pond by the city grimace.
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His face, through the visor, was contorted in a weird grimace of glee as he brought the club down.
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WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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Rita just shrugged, grimaced, then smiled that whacked-out smile.
MOON PASSAGE
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Lord Valleys grimaced beneath his crisp moustache -- the word grandpapa always fell queerly on the ears of one who was but fifty-six, and by no means felt it -- and jerking his gloved hand towards Ann, he said:
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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Martin pocketed it with a grimace, and felt for a moment the kindly weight of Brissenden's hand upon his shoulder.
Chapter 31
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A grimace was the closest he could come to changing his facial expression, since his species wasn't exactly geared for smiling, frowning, and other human-like actions.
Fire on High
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On the other hand, I've had patients hobble in with a grimace and tell me their pain level is a two.
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'A dook, in course, 'said Grattles loftily;' but we don't, in consequence of 'er Nibs bein' mixed up with the old man's mother, reweal the family skeletons to low piemen, 'then, with a fresh grimace, he darted along the street as quickly as his bandy legs could carry him.
Madame Midas
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The husband grimaced as his wife clamped his fingers like a vise.
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He grimaced as his feet sank into the muck with an audible squelch.
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She grimaced at the memory; the past always seemed to hurt her!
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We politely decline his offer to share and grimace at each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shorty, the Japanese half-caste, clown that he was, dancing and grinning on the outskirts of the struggle, with a final grimace and hysterical giggle led the retreat across the poop and down the poop-ladder.
CHAPTER XLII
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Simultaneous translation is provided, but Donald Dewar is among the members vexed by the technology and his grimace is captured by photographers.
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Meantime I practised terrible vocal exercises, chiefly consisting of a raucous "caw" something like a crow's favourite remark, and advocated by my teacher in elocution for no reason that I can now remember; and I stood before the glass for hours at a time making grimaces so as to acquire the "actor's face," till my frightened little sisters implored me to turn back into myself again.
Painted Windows
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Timothy Goebel's mid-jump grimace is no indication of how he felt about his return to competition.
USATODAY.com - Goebel glad to be healthy again
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Ibrahim's grimace was personal, the kind of contortion an insult brings.
What About the Iraqis?
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You're probably right, I just kind of grimaced at the iHype (of course I say this as I posted an ask me question yesterday about how to jailbreak my 2g iphone to 3.0.
MetaFilter
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Sophie acknowledged the fact with a grimace as, with a wave and a whooping "halloo," Clarissa shot past.
A Lady of Expectations
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They shifted their gaze to Rosen who grimaced sympathy at them, nodding.
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The grimace on a friend's face as he bit into the fritter was the first sign all was not well.
Tom Sietsema on Agora: A restaurateur turns to Turkey for revamp
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Noise, pollution and grimaces tend to undo any good that nature has done.
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Was that a smile or a grimace on his face?
Times, Sunday Times
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A sharp pain scored the back of his throat, and he swallowed with a small grimace.
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Compare smirk, sneer, frown, scowl and grimace.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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He grimaced slightly at the pain.
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Her father's thin lips twisted into a grimace of such severity that they all but vanished from existence.
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As soon as he set eyes on you, he grimaced ugly and said, ‘It’s a girl?
Raven
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Dimly through rubescent veils, the others in the hall could glimpse his white, frozen features, fixed in a grimace of torment.
Conan Of The Isles
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The expression grimace on your face is pretty funny in the photo where you are sitting on the steps with the dog at your feet.
The Big Event
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The coach grimaces when he reflects upon the current challenges that face his squad, given the ‘five to six weeks’ he was left with to assemble an entirely new roster from scratch.
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He hits Neng as hard as he can, smack, kick, smack, kick, then he jumps on his knees and on to his shoulders, and there isn't a single grimace from the Thai master.
Dizzee Rascal: Fight to the top
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A funny parody scene of the movie was shown, while Homer grimaced at his movie heroes cavorting and caterwauling.
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As the administrator put down the phone he grimaced wearily, then his manner softened.
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Tackling is also much meatier, with grimace-inducing challenges replayed in photorealistic slow motion.
Times, Sunday Times
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WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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Wood, who was acting as host, directed operations in execrable French, and grimaced at Holly who was enjoying his efforts.
LOADED QUESTIONS
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There was some mild pain but, other than a few grimaces which her audience didn't see because she was in constant action and far enough away, she managed to stifle most of it.
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She grimaced; her life was probably going out of control again if she was measuring positive and negative by such bizarro standards.
T2©: RISING STORM
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An ugly grimace twisted her face.
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She grinned as I inconspicuously grimaced and longed to duck beneath the covers.
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She felt around for the lock and grimaced when she felt the cold metal touch her skin.
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I think your first entry got me thinking about Apatow a lot though, cause I kept recalling the classically strange and awkward dates from the great series Freaks and Geeks, and of course that breakfast date in Knocked Up where Katherine Heigl re-explains what she does for a living and Seth Rogen desperately asks for her number, especially that grimaced line, “we had fun … right?”
Top 10 Unorthodox Date Scenes » Scene-Stealers
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Ragnor's body ached and his face twisted in a grimace of pain that hid his inner rage.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Then he caught a look at himself in the mirror, with the angry scowl on his face, and grimaced.
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Langlais grimaced angrily, kicked open the ventils, leaned across as many keys as he could and almost blew the roof off.
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Players get launched into the air, take forearm smashes, and land with such force, gamers will grimace for weeks at the wreck of bodies left in its wake.
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To look in the mirror and smile, rather than grimace or avoid mirrors; to look at a beautiful tummy which is all soft and squishy and beautifully strokable and huggable and with lots of play value; to appreciate how strong and powerful my legs are that they carry me about the place; this is so fabulous to have this liking and interest about my body, rather than a loathing.
Finding the authentic “yes” and the authentic “no”
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Ian listened for a few seconds, his bland smile twisting slowly into an exaggerated grimace.
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Her severed head flopped on a bin of guts, yellow beak in a grimace - take me with you?
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With mouth wide open, he looked like a dirty old man, testing the tannins of the progesterone equivalent of red wine with his flehmen grimace.
The Elephant's Secret Sense
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Revis grimaced when the word "fortunate" was used in reference to Pool.
NYT > Home Page
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Aptos, Calif., manager Dave Anderson grimaced from the opposing dugout, no doubt in his mind about what motivated the display.
USATODAY.com - They're dancing in Williamsport
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When the Joker enters one fray with a murderous flourish and that sawed-off smile, his morbid grin a mirror of the Black Dahlia's ear-to-ear grimace, your nervous laughter will die in your throat.
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A bogey on the opening hole led to a grimace and prolonged whispering from the galleries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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His lips thinned into a grimace, but she knew he would not be forsworn to his word.
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There was a slight grimace upon his face but the grimace wasn't that of physical pain.
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No, just about everything has been setting my teeth on edge, making me clench and unclench my fists, putting a permanent grimace on my face.
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Ragnor's body ached and his face twisted in a grimace of pain that hid his inner rage.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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It is January in the Middle West and people are sliding across the iced campus walkways, their faces freezing into grimaces whenever a stiff wind gusts off the river.
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The Duke simulated his profound regret, but when Louis 'back was turned made a most unprincely and most uncourtly grimace at his royal uncle, which set them all a-laughing.
The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV
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He grimaced and shivered as a cold gust of wind blew a flurry of brown leaves across the porch and between his feet.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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But a fleeting grimace is soon replaced with the jovial stoicism that runs through the English like rheumatism.
Perhaps I shall hire a little boat ......
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He often makes little grimaces as if he were receiving an electric shock.
The Sun
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Right, he thinks with a grimace, clutching the folder in his hand.
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Was that a smile or a grimace on his face?
Times, Sunday Times
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To detect the pheromones in that urine some mammals touch the liquid and do a distinctive, mortifying, lip-curling grimace called flehmen.
INSIDE OF A DOG
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He grins and he grimaces.
Times, Sunday Times
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Daria grimaced and removed it, wiping it on her jeans.
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I whiled away the time by playing with Rubens under the table, Aunt Maria "superintended" the music in a way that must have made any less stolid performer nervous, and Leo was apt to try and distract Polly's attention by grimaces and pantomime of a far from respectful nature behind Aunt Maria's back.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son
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I grimaced alongside him, but in truth verbing is far from new.
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she made a grimace at the prospect
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Sally had grimaced with distaste when she had met her from the train, immediately condemning the beige shirt waister dress she was wearing as unbelievably frumpy and sexless.
Lesson to Learn
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Rendered immobile just three days earlier, he can now almost walk without pain and gracefully pliés to pluck his coffee cup from the table, although he grimaces when posing for photographs.
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Joe probably had gas when he grimaced after her comment and was just whistling Dixie with the on-going festivities when he told Jill to "shhh" immediately after the grimace.
OpEdNews - Diary: Act 1, Scene 1 - Line Flub 1
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He grimaced and scratched his short, curly black hair where it stuck out from under his tartan cap.
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Judging by the grimaces and tuts, he has his work cut out.
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In the dim light of the tent his bony features reflected Leah's sallow grimace, Ksandra's pinched cheeks.
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I felt my lips tighten in a rictus that was closer to a grimace than a smile.
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The leading nigger had armed himself with a cleaver from the galley, and he grimaced like an ape as he prepared to slice me down.
THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN
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He smiled, or rather grinned, his fangs making the latter term fitter for the mirthless grimace he made.
The Frozen Pirate
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She is rigid, trembling; her fists are clenched in the folds of her pink skirt, and her pointed face is a hieratic grimace.
MOON PASSAGE
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She grimaced and let the point of her foil drop to the floor.
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He grimaced as he noted the shattered glass by the mantelpiece, and moved to the kitchen to find a dustpan and brush.
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I threw open his closet and grimaced at the dust that flew from it.
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It was that of a talus larger than the largest Auk had ever seen; its virescent bronze face was cast in a grimace of hate, blinding yellow light glared from its eyes, and the oily black barrels of a flamer and a pair of buzz guns jutted from its open mouth.
Calde of the Long Sun
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He quickly wiped his finger onto his black apron with a grimace and leaned on the counter, smiling sweetly to her.
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She wrinkled her nose and twisted her mouth in that appealing grimace of hers, then silently nodded and opened the door part-way.
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I carefully looked over my shoulder expecting to be greeted with a wide-eyed grimace of sheer white-knuckled terror.
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He grimaced slightly, obviously expecting no answer to his rhetorical question.
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The cotton linen of his robe stuck to his skin and I saw his grimace when I peeled it off of him, discarding the clothing in a pile on the floor.
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The woman at the breakfast table screwed her mouth into a grimace.
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La Balue rose; the others, from honour, esteem, and reverence of the church, gave way to the clergy, and, biding their time, they continued to make grimaces, at which the king laughed to himself with Nicole, who aided him to stop the respiration of these loose-bowelled gentlemen.
Droll Stories — Volume 1
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As your face scrunches up in a grimace of the most agonizing of all pain, you'll be exercising the vital muscles in and around your schnozz without even knowing it!
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"Aw, mom, I don't need to know that," grimaces Jimmy.
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He had a grimace for a face, and a scar across his cheek.
WALKING THE BIBLE
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The patient grimaces, clamping down on a mouth guard designed to prevent tongue-biting and broken teeth.
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He accompanied such antics with an assortment of facial grimaces, one-string tricks, and even animal howls.
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Once, during a foxhunt at Peterhof, he grimaced in pain after leaping into the saddle.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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The grille was a slim grimace, and the nose a triangle, curved at the corners like a billiard-ball rack.
Vroom at the Top
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We politely decline his offer to share and grimace at each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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He grimaced at the smell of fresh blood, then pulled the loaded rifle from its holster.
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She had the gift of a clear and musical laugh, and her small delicate face would wrinkle and pout into grimaces which gave to her a rather attractive air of _gaminerie_ -- Hillyard could find no word but the French one to express her on that evening.
The Summons
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She wore a hint of false annoyance on her face, her fascinatingly shaped lips twisting themselves into a grimace.
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The butler inserted a hooked finger into his collar, grimaced and huffed.
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The poor man grimaces in pain and falls to one knee.
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In an old court of the old town lived a certain elderly personage, perhaps sixty, or thereabouts; he was rather tall, and something of a robust make, with a countenance in which bluffness was singularly blended with vivacity and grimace; and with a complexion which would have been ruddy, but for a yellow hue which rather predominated.
Lavengro
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Saltman grimaced while squinting and staring down his MacBook screen.
On the Scene at the Game Developers Conference: Day 2 « PubliCola
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There was a brief moment where he could not hide his wince, his small grimace of pain.
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She grimaced as the needle went in.
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He grins and he grimaces.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their skin was pale and pasty, their eyes were blazing with nightfire, their thin lips were drawn back in that hideous death's head grimace that haunted many an Ocular child in his sleep.
Darkness of the Light
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I grimaced, crossing my fingers and jabbing the starter button for the engine.
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I kind of grimaced and looked away, and she said, "You're not used to people giving you praise, are you?
Archive 2005-07-01
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The dog grimaced harshly, a cringe that did not suggest primitive fear as much as painful recollection.
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She makes a little grimace.
Times, Sunday Times
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She grimaced at her reflection in the mirror.
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He grimaced at the bitter taste.
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I see grimaces of pain from once smiling visages.
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As she grimaced and grunted her way through to her third Wimbledon title, she got a little lucky.
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Thomas made a little grimace, perhaps he thought the wine was sour.
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Le vivant me repugne, quand on me parle je plisse les yeux et fait la grimace parce que la voix des gens me blesse les tympans, je ne fait jamais la bise ni ne sert la main sauf si la personne en face attends comme un blaireau.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_
Practical Grammar and Composition
