How To Use Quizzical In A Sentence
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A quizzical smile crinkled the corners of his eyes as he "hefted" his burdens.
Where the Sun Swings North
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But he was met only with quizzical looks.
Times, Sunday Times
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She gave me a quizzical look/glance/smile.
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While ringing the bell of universality, I pose a question for observers of Christmas, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each holiday season, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you …
Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
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He had that quizzical way of looking at people, like a poker player who wanted to know if you were bluffing.
For Love or Money
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Rather than turning on their heels, there is usually a quizzical look and questions about what it involves.
Times, Sunday Times
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He became quizzical yet some of them nodded their assent or what he took to be assent.
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I almost had to laugh when I saw the quizzical expression on her face.
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England were not exactly in full-scale panic mode but there were certainly a few quizzical looks.
The Sun
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He is also a friendly, decent man whose mild and quizzical gaze provides the movie's sole point of view.
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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
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On his face is the most comical, quizzical expression, which is probably exactly how most of us would look if stuffed.
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Her expression is pained, quizzical and defensive, as if expecting a tirade of criticism at every turn.
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The poems are stark and beautiful, by turns quizzical and whimsical and grave, so the music strives to echo those qualities, as well as some of the bittersweetness of discovering a new love while parting with another....
Daniel J. Kushner: Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #5: Sarah Kirkland Snider and Rob Moose
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With a quizzical eyebrow, she helps them with the trickiest aspects, from setting a price to showing buyers around.
Times, Sunday Times
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High-tech wunderkind entrepreneurs are of course the most recognizable of the various archetypes, but nowadays once obscure protagonists with strange appellations such as hacker, combinator, seed-stage VC and angel no longer generate quizzical looks and raised eyebrows when others point them out at cocktail parties or gush about them in the mainstream press.
Dave Lerner: I Am Incubator
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He glanced quizzically at his father, his expression rife with disappointment.
No Way Out
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She played innocent though as she turned to look at him, arching an eyebrow with a quizzical expression.
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He continued in a quizzical tone.
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Holden looked at me quizzically, but did not enquire further.
ANTI-ICE
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I recall the quizzical expressions of my classmates who wondered why an apparently healthy girl should suddenly report ill.
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Madame Bovary!" he said quizzically, reading the title of the book on the little fat man's bookrest; and, holding it closer to his boiled-looking eyes, he repeated, as though it were a joke, "Madame
The Island Pharisees
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Ten seconds later, I turned back, wondering at his silence, and he was looking back at me with a quizzical expression.
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he had a quizzical expression
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People then look quizzical and perplexed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still, he seems happiest retreating to the home and hearth, casting a quizzical eye over subjects as mundane as cat food.
Times, Sunday Times
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He shot me a quizzical look.
Times, Sunday Times
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The restaurant is a big Wall Street hang - out, and I detect a few quizzical glances.
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Selwyn looked at her quizzically, his head tipped to one side and his large ears pricked forward as he watched.
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they looked quizzically at the doctor
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They have quizzical expressions, they're posed in awkward, falling-puppy positions.
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He rolled the cigar in his fingers for a moment, then scrutinized his aide, his expression quizzical.
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his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air
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I threw a quizzical glance at the Minister.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chester looked up with a quizzical smile as his "plebe" came in:
From the Ranks
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Ella Jean rested her dark hand on Grady's, the long red fingernail of her index finger flicking quizzically at his watchband.
BLACK EAGLES
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He gave Robin a mildly quizzical glance.
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Through it all peer his sharp, quizzical blue eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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When she became aware of Cadfael and his mule, she straightened her back with the right cautious gradualness and a true gardener's grunt, and turned upon him shrewd brown eyes under brows quizzically oblique, very knowing eyes that took him in from cowl to sandals in one sweeping glance.
The Leper of Saint Giles
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You'll cack yourself when, after each tale of woe, he turns to the camera with a quizzical face and asks, What the?
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When Bustamante announced the word "muumuu," adult audience members looked quizzically at each other.
Undefined
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Adele looked at him, a quizzical expression on her face.
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A tourniquet was on my upper arm, a blue squeezy ball tightly gripped in my hand, and a phlebotomist was looking quizzically at my arm.
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My wife comes in and looks quizzical.
Times, Sunday Times
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The program doesn't identify the young Frank, but they've found themselves an Eastwood lookalike, down to the lowered head, quizzical look and sidewise wrinkled grin.
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Her expression is pained, quizzical and defensive, as if expecting a tirade of criticism at every turn.
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The gold-eyed birds darting in between the leaves observed that purulence, that wetness, quizzically.
The Waves
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He stood up and looked around curiously, a quizzical expression on his face.
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Edella regards me quizzically, but I just stare right back at her with an equally confused expression.
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She looked at me, all quizzical like, not quite believing me.
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The lady spies my quizzical look.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above him the huge form peered down at him and regarded him quizzically.
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You offer no explanations, and quizzical looks follow you as you hurry out.
Christianity Today
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He looked over the faces, found himself mildly curious at the quizzical smile on the good side of Voss's face.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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He cocked a quizzical eyebrow at her.
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I raised a quizzical eyebrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rational Review
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All I asks is," quoth the fellow with a quizzical look, "how you've fobbed the nubbing-cheat so long!
Black Bartlemy's Treasure
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But Seaton only lost out on the top mark for having had three z 's in the word quizzical.
FAIRYLAND
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We will miss that quizzical, inquiring, genial but incisive mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sounded rather quizzical and calm despite the equivalent of an Uzi being thrust at his throat.
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The kitten gave her a quizzical look but did not let out a mew.
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Theodore didn't say anything; he merely looked at David with a quizzical expression.
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He blinked at her quizzically a few times, and then looked back at his wound, and winced in pain.
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At best, they receive a few quizzical stares, a couple of thumbs-up signs and a desperate waving of white flags.
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I saw the quizzical look in his eyes and knew at once what he was thinking.
Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
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The team shot quizzical glances at their new addition but made no move to get rid of him.
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he looked at her, not wrathfully now, but quizzically
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They saw simply a loose, lank youth with tow-colored sunburned hair and a berry-brown, ingenuous face that wore a quizzical, good-natured smile.
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And yet their eyes, their lips, a certain shy grin or quizzical cant of an eyebrow, look strangely familiar.
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On his face is the most comical, quizzical expression, which is probably exactly how most of us would look if stuffed.
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Holden looked at me quizzically, but did not enquire further.
ANTI-ICE
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He continued in a quizzical tone.
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At the best of times, science leaves me with a quizzical expression on my face and a less than articulate ‘eh?’
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I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season?
Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
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Mr Rice looks out quizzically over Stoke from the window of his newly refurbished warehouse.
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But if his rugby talent has rarely been questioned, his mental attitude has raised the odd quizzical eyebrow.
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Tobermory looked after him for a quizzical moment, then turned his attention to the malodorous bundle.
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I looked at him quizzically and ran over the list of people that were in my third grade class.
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They have warmth and a slightly quizzical expression, as though she would like to answer my unspoken questions.
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Father Bourassa fanned himself with the black broadbrim hat he wore, and looked benignly but quizzically on the wiry, sharp-faced Irishman.
Northern Lights, Complete
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I had the same quizzical feeling you did, Ben, with Kermode's examples -- and we could easily pull phrases from A Portrait of the Artist that don't seem particularly different in their "adultness" or whatever.
A Prolegomenon to the Reading of Some Books Labeled YA
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Many times, in the course of the day, alertly and nonchalantly, almost with a quizzical knowingness, Jerry cocked his head at the mainsail when it made sudden swooping movements or slacked and tautened its crashing sheet-gear.
CHAPTER III
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He inspected his young visitors with a quizzical, waspish look.
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He has aged remarkably little, he wears the same white shirt, and the face has the same quizzical expression today as it did in 1965.
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And yet their eyes, their lips, a certain shy grin or quizzical cant of an eyebrow, look strangely familiar.
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He cocked his head quizzically and his tongue nervously lapped at his flews.
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The team shot quizzical glances at their new addition but made no move to get rid of him.
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Often this is met with a quizzical expression and a demand for me to explain what I am asking them.
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The woman in the green maxi dress gives me a quizzical look as I peer over my sunglasses at her striking outfit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her expression is pained, quizzical and defensive, as if expecting a tirade of criticism at every turn.
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We will miss that quizzical, inquiring, genial but incisive mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Finn never rose to the bait, either feigning an inability to understand the question or flat-batting inquiries with a quizzical shrug and a nondescript answer.
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Rembrandt has a quizzical, jesting expression, as well he may, in view of his wondrous hat and slashed leather jerkin, ornate with glass beads.
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When the speech began, the foreign players shared quizzical glances, which soon turned to angry glares.
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These I presented in several conferences and colloquia, but the small frowns and quizzical looks of my colleagues deterred me from taking them any further or attempting publication.
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At my every punchline the nervous titters grow fewer, the expressions in the front row more furrowed and quizzical.
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We were making an entry of somebody's chickens at a store door in the village just mentioned, one August day, when a familiar "hillo!" reached our ear, and turning round, we perceived, some twenty yards off, the quizzical face of our old friend, projecting over the fore-gate of his wagon, and puckered into five hundred little wrinkles as he cachinnated joyously --
Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley
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Her face was vaguely familiar, and Floyd suddenly became aware that the Administrator was looking at him with a quizzical smile.
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Now the mirror gives back this balding chap with a quizzical expression.