How To Use Scowl In A Sentence
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He let his face resume a scowl.
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He scowled at Zilla, whose withered lips were again writhing into speech, and compelled her to silence.
The White Man's Way
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Then another one suddenly moved toward me, scowling, and waved at me to stop.
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Moroni queried, scowling with disappointment, feeling his excitement recede.
FINAL RESORT
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‘No’ she said sharply ‘but there is no reason for me to talk to brainless dimwits like you, I am after all your prisoner’ she said, and she scowled.
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A big stand of grain bins; they are scowling at the wind, each of them.
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He lay there while Afanasy, gloomy and scowling, hovered about him, sighing heavily, and smelling like a pothouse.
The Wife
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The frown on the bachelor's face was deepening to a scowl.
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The mention of his name caused the woman to scowl quite belligerently, and the dog gave another low growl.
Not So Innocent
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Richard Kay, like Nigel Dempster before him, is paid to write a diary about moneyed toffs like David and Sam so that humbler tube-travelling folk can goggle a bit and scowl at their youngers and betters.
Tory press defenders of Middle England rail against the toffs
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If there is anything more pleasing than a man in a suit with a scowl on his face, we can't think of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sulkily, the publicist moves to the back of the bar but Sinclair is still scowling.
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She met Jack outside Lizzi's bedroom door and found his face to be angry, he was scowling at her.
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Are you the voice from the wilderness?" demanded Hippy scowlingly.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers
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And as Maigret scowlingly pointed to the newspaper sticking out of his pocket, he smiled.
Maigret Afraid
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The captain wandered about like a lost soul, nervously chewing his mustache, scowling, unable to make up his mind what to do.
THE SEED OF McCOY
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It earned him a scowling hiss of disapproval from Dendria and a punch in the shoulder from Naoise for his comedic troubles.
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Just think of the red stripes on the scowling face of the male Mandrill, Africa's largest monkey species. But red is not exclusively a male trait.
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Holmes scowled and wished he worked in radio rather than the written word.
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He picked it up and thrust it with a scowl into the hands of the nearest steward.
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One of them glanced scowlingly at Floyd, as he passed the lad, evidently associating his wounds with the presence of the prisoner.
The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis
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He was hissing now, scowling with a hatred and anger at them both.
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Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow, or shower;
The Iliad of Homer (1873)
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Who is he whose hair is of the carroty hue? whose eyes, across a snubby bunch of a nose, are perpetually scowling at each other; who has a hump-back and a hideous mouth, surrounded with bristles, and crammed full of jutting yellow odious teeth.
A Legend of the Rhine
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Jane scowled in disgust and stood, continuing her walk along the path, down the hillside.
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In the front yard the pot-bellied officer was scowling and grunting, exclaiming angrily to the monkish gatekeeper.
COUP D'ETAT
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Wearing black leather, dark eye makeup, and dyed hair, the punks stand before graffiti-covered brick walls and inside doorways scowling at the camera.
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In triumph, he picks people up, hugs them, shouts with glee; in defeat, his face carries a frightening scowl and the pearly teeth disappear from view.
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Surely scowling is the big giveaway to your opponent that they are getting the better of exchanges and you are getting rattled.
The Sun
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He scowled at the now-empty bottle, shook it, and muttered something.
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Waaa-al I dunno, Kerry seems to have read a few books and done some thinking since graduation, Bush on the other hand scowls petulantly and cannot use the word "dissemble" correctly in a sentence - a challenge that my eleven year old niece would sneer at.
The Chimes at Midnight
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Captain Morris, the mess officer, scowled at the garbage can of steaming water.
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He wasn't scowling or had a dark masked expression on his face anymore, he was quiet.
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The scowl of the opposing parties, the blanched cheeks, the knit brows, and the grinding teeth, not pretermitting the deadly gleams that shoot from their kindled eyes, are ornaments which a plain battle between factions cannot boast, but which, notwithstanding, are very suitable to the fierce and gloomy silence of that premeditated vengeance which burns with such intensity in the heart, and scorches up the vitals into such a thirst for blood.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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Chris met the remark with a scowl.
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She looked at him distrustfully, and he scowled at her.
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The grim determination became a scowl as the game wore on.
The Sun
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He scowled, and slammed the door behind him.
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What if I remembered her number wrong and I knock on the door of someone who just scowls at me?
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Cody scowled and refocused his attention on the movie.
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I waited a few seconds, Strange trying to intimidate mc with his frozen scowl.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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Scowling, I took back my dishrag and turned on the coffee machine.
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She stuck her head out of the stall to see Arlan in a sweeping black cloak, a haversack over his shoulder, a scowl on his face.
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She didn't think much of the music-she scowled and prayed all through the entr'acte.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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His expression hardened when he spotted Adam, but just as quickly as his scowl appeared, it was replaced by a smile.
The Clayborne Brides
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Surely scowling is the big giveaway to your opponent that they are getting the better of exchanges and you are getting rattled.
The Sun
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Ryan scowled at the young man and shooed him away with a wave of his hand.
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A man with flyaway hair was digging through a desk drawer, scowling.
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A costume assistant rushed over to clean her up - but couldn't wipe the scowl off her face.
The Sun
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Alonzo was scowling when he opened the door, but grinned when he realized it was us.
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A scowl darkened his brown eyes to black as he glared ahead.
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He was a big, beefy man with coal black eyes and a blocklike face frozen permanently in a scowl.
Masters of the Air
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She scowled meanly, then her face became more serious and thoughtful.
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His foot should stamp, his throat should growl, his hair should twirl and his face should scowl.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scowling, he threw a clod of frozen dirt into the stream.
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His face wore a smile instead of the usual scowl, he had no coat on, his sleeves were rolled up, and he carried a frow in one hand (a frow is a sharp instrument used for splitting out shingles), and a heavy mallet in the other.
The Boy Trapper
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The prince scowled and took on a dark expression that Merlin had not seen before on the cordial coyote.
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Keeping you at home, in the kitchen, with the children, while government policy rains Hell on the kind of hussies that "ask for it" from men, and scowling and sternly tapping it's foot at the men who give it to them, is all in your own best genetic interest.
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine
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‘Come on, bub, you're holding up da line,’ the gateman scowled as he turned back to his puzzle.
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The lanky Miller boy shuffled out of the office, scowling at nothing in particular.
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With her expression twisted in a scowl, Veronique instantly morphed from crude biker bitch to a goth-looking Satan worshiper.
Pure Paradise
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If it looks at you it seems to be frowning or scowling.
Times, Sunday Times
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She stood off to the side of the room, only barely managing to hide her scowl.
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In Liverpool blue bunting hangs from the civic buildings, the locals have a swagger in their step and even the scowling scallies who hang around the street corners break into an occasional smile.
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Beneath his scowl, a scared look crept into his eyes, and he glanced aside warily at his self-appointed detainer.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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As best as he could, Thomas shrugged and his scowl gave way to feigned indifference.
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‘To one of the officers from a particularly inefficient Unit who asked for arms, Mick, with a scowl on his face, his hands deep in his pockets, his right foot pawing the ground, shot back, ‘What the Hell does a lot of lousers like you want arms for?
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I took my change purse out of my pocketbook and scowled.
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A few old scrotes sitting around scowling at their pastis.
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I picked up the noisy clock, scowling at it with my half opened eyes, and shook my head.
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Swiftly turning on the Frenchman, Crockett—his handsome visage wrought into an irate scowl—said: “Are you calling my pard a liar, mon-sewer?”
Nevermore
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Although a 20th Century Fox spokesperson declined to comment, 24’s expert scowler, Mary Lynn Rajskub, confirms that the clock for Day 7 has been reset.
Wanted: A Plot for 24 Season Seven | the TV addict
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He made it a point to identify all of them, receiving, while he did so, scowls and mutterings, and reciprocating with cocky bullyings and threatenings.
CHAPTER III
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I waited a few seconds, Strange trying to intimidate mc with his frozen scowl.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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Twelve guards entered the room, scowls and sneers on their faces.
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a furious scowl
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I ran into the kitchen, expecting to see my aunt there, an angry scowl placed upon her face.
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The marsh hawk perches in a bare cottonwood tree, scowling at a flock of bufflehead ducks bobbing on the marsh.
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She scowls and takes out her hairbrush and flattens her hair with quick, angry strokes.
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Here you will find, facing the pictures, poetic evocations of dumbledore, hollt, scowle, sgeir, beck and gill, and more.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The tattoo on his cheek wrinkled as he scowlingly recounted his days below deck in a slaveship before Kennit had freed him.
Ship Of Destiny
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He scowled and the fear exploded inside as he reached out suddenly and grasped me by the chin again, pulling me so that we were face to face, only inches apart.
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But the father pulled back one of the little men by his paletot, gave a grim scowl, and walked away.
Roundabout Papers
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I clasped her gently by the shoulders and placed a kiss on her scowling brow.
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He scowled, his upper lip curling so slightly that his lips did not part.
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She took note that a lot of the girls were scowling at her as she sat down.
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With his scowl, stocky build and ginger crewcut, the passenger looked like trouble the moment he swaggered down the platform.
Times, Sunday Times
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He scowled at it, squatting above him on the chest of drawers.
LOHENGRIN
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Jahdo frankly stared until one of the axemen glanced his way with a scowl, frightening him into looking elsewhere.
A TIME OF WAR
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Twelve guards entered the room, scowls and sneers on their faces.
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And feeling irritated, I retired to the bathroom where I sat on the floor scowling for a great deal of the evening.
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We sat for hours, scowling with concentration, cross-stitching cute little scenes and heartfelt sayings on squares of linen.
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A team of Japanese scientists, led by Toshiyuki Hata of the Kagawa University School of Medicine, is using 3-D ultrasound to count fetal blinks and yawns, and to document what they call expressions like smiling, scowling, and sticking out the tongue.
Origins
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The scowler distracted me from the t-shirt, but yes, it's an excellent clue.
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!
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The door burst open and Teresa charged in, scowling under her pancake makeup.
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He wore a permanent scowl on his face.
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And yonder below us, Loch Linnhe and Locheil glanced in the moonlight, and the strong towers of Inverlochy sat like a scowl on the fringe of the wave!
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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With a jowly face set in a permanent scowl, he is perfectly suited to the grim realities of war, and he knows it.
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His forehead was permanently wrinkled and his eyes always in a scowl, portraying his constant ferociousness and controlling behavior.
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Better just to stomp around and scowl instead.
Times, Sunday Times
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The girl scowled and jabbed at his ribs with her dagger.
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Jacks growled a bit, scowling, but Sam laughed, and smiled at him, so it melted away.
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She scowled even though there was no one to see her but the flies and the dead beastie.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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What did the first scowler have to say about his ditching the bird?
The Volokh Conspiracy » No Fowl Committed
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Teague scowled, and his wings pressed closer to his back, a sure sign of agitation.
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Spicy Mel, dancing with perma-scowler Maksim Chmerkovskiy, decided flesh is best andwent withminimal coverage of naughty bits in both routines.
Dancing with the Stars: Tarts and Trainwrecks
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He scowled, pretending anger to make up for the insane urge to grin absurdly.
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a dark scowl
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Dalbert sprang back, with his thumb still in his mouth, and his sword drooping, scowling darkly at the new-comer.
The Refugees
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Chris was the second one to notice, and the scowl dropped rather quickly, replaced by a sickeningly sweet simper that made Sam queasy.
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When we had satisfied ourselves that no part of our extensive new wardrobe would chafe or pinch or expose our soft flesh to frostbite, we packed up our bags and the scowler dispatched us I The Big White into the sunshine, marking our names down and issuing threats about the consequences of arriving late for the plane.
Terra Incognita
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She scowled darkly and muttered something under her breath.
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Greta told me of her childhood when she enjoyed visits to Feniscowles Hall, which then had pleasure gardens with swings and see-saws.
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I waited a few seconds, Strange trying to intimidate mc with his frozen scowl.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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Scowling at her image, she pulled on a yellow and green sweatband, forcing her hair to lie at least a little closer to her head.
GING GANG GOOLIE IT'S AN ALIEN
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Even the taxi driver, who as far as I knew could not speak a word of English, seems to be scowling at me in his rear view mirror.
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Aaron tried to scowl at the miserable creature, but it didn't faze him one bit.
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‘I don't see why I have to be here,’ he muttered grouchily, kicking a column and scowling blackly at it.
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Doc turned off his pager again and stuck it into his pocket, scowling as the police jeep pulled to a standstill in front of them.
BEHINDLINGS
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Dinah wanted to scowl back at him, but she held it down, smiling sweetly instead before ascending the stairs to get away from her parents and their prying questions.
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With his scowl, stocky build and ginger crewcut, the passenger looked like trouble the moment he swaggered down the platform.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although I had pretty well forgotten my New York disappointment, two months 'contemplation of the happiness enjoyed by Richards in the society of his young and charming wife, had done little towards reconciling me to my bachelorship; and it was with small pleasure that I looked forward to a return to my solitary plantation, where I could reckon on no better welcome than the cold, and perhaps scowling, glance of slaves and hirelings.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348
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Most unsettling of all is a portrait by a colleague in which Muybridge hunches, scowling with paranoia, at the base of a patriarchal sequoia, apparently ready to wriggle into a cavity between its roots.
Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer
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He scowls at the drama on the television and starts fiddling with the remote control.
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More than anyone else, Dante never failed to make her want to laugh or scowl or rage - and had the bent for inducing within her the latter.
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Again we sat at a couple's regular table and were glad we could exchange scowls with them.
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Then, her eyes fell back into that scowl, that evil little slit-eyed look, trying to be somewhat intimidating and still failing.
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Joshua came back out of the bathroom wearing a scowl, and glared at the other two.
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Compare smirk, sneer, frown, scowl and grimace.
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She didn't think much of the music-she scowled and prayed all through the entr'acte.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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The little Venuso-Terrestrian bowed himself out, smiling relievedly, leaving the captain to sit scowling perplexedly in a haze of cigar smoke.
"Neutral Vessel" by Harl Vincent, part 1
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There are long shots of a round-shouldered, perpetually scowling artist trudging along a street.
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She came up to me, though, with a sweet, sad expression in her face and a trusting look in her eyes that made my heart bound, as she laid her hands in mine and thanked me for what she called my gallantry; and I was so taken up by her words that I hardly noticed the scowl
The Golden Magnet
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A couple of girls in Jessica's posse strolled by and scowled at me.
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Perhaps some offensive remark I bad made that evening had. penetrated the alcoholic fog, for he sat scowling at the head of the table while Mme. Desprez, the wife of a public-relations officer, and Captain Duparc of the Press Liaison Service nodded and becked.
The Quiet American
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The angel looked up again, casting a baleful scowl at the Academy, in all its splendour.
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With that, Willow smiled, not a flirtatious grin with a wink, not a sneer, not a scowl; the sickness had wracked her sharply, forcing a new, solemn calm upon her.
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So be it, then, if he will have it so," replied the soldier, with a light laugh, when this was reported to him; but his wife turned pale and trembled as she recalled the undying hate expressed by Mahng's scowling face.
At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear
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But the country, surely, will embrace him, scraggy beard and scowl and whinge and all, without reservation if he cuts 75 years of a dire past adrift and wins the men's singles title.
Andy Murray calm before facing Rafael Nadal for a place in the final
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Better just to stomp around and scowl instead.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your facial expressions can help to emphasize parts of your speech too: try smiling, scowling, or raising your eyebrows.
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I argued that the obliterate dialog box should include a photograph of a 75-year old catholic nun scowling and holding a yardstick.
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I scowled into the night, took a swig of my beer and dumped the rest over the side of the deck.
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She didn't think much of the music-she scowled and prayed all through the entr'acte.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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With the blood welling from a shothole in his broad, burly chest and the seal of death already settling on his ashen brow, he was scowling up into the half-compassionate, half-contemptuous faces about him.
Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila
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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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He scowled at her and then lurched away to trap some other person with his clipboard and pamphlets.
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When he saw that she was examining him, his neutral expression turned into a scowl.
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Chavasse had one final glimpse of his dark, saturnine face scowling at them over the rail and then the marsh moved in to enfold them.
THE KEYS OF HELL
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The Brawlers scowled viciously at the stationary pair as they sped forward, their serpents lashing their tails and hissing.
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This all makes for incredibly depressing viewing, not helped by her petulant, sulky, scowling presence.
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Those who delighted in the first snows exchanged smiles, though many were scowling at the cold.
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She scowled (still not entirely content with the shape of it), her calcimine eyes casually resting on the well-packed shelf behind the TV.
BEHINDLINGS
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Nilah scowled through her glasses at the pools of blue skiting back and forth across her face, trying to understand the sudden change of attitude in her.
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And opposite to him his mutinous son was sitting asprawl in a chair, smoking a cheap cigarette with an exceptionally heavy scowl; a lively picture of youthful impiety.
The Complete Father Brown
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In Ezra Pound's translation of Li Po's "The River-Merchant's Wife," we are moved by the thousand-year-old voice of a young bride in China: "At fifteen, I stopped scowling, / I desired my dust to be mingled with yours / Forever and forever, and forever.
How Memorization Makes Words Live
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Fast bowlers are supposed to be muscle-bound hunks who stride around with a permanent scowl, not cheerful lads with blonde highlights and a good sense of humour who end every sentence with ‘mate’.
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His foot should stamp, his throat should growl, his hair should twirl and his face should scowl.
Times, Sunday Times
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Father scowled at her anyway, his thick black eyebrows beetling together.
Uprising
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After which they scowl, or punch the air.
Times, Sunday Times
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I scowled at Mitchells from behind his black shirted back.
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No, up close it was a furiously scowling Polynesian woman, a silkscreened portrait of Momi, the second Mrs. Buddy Hamstra.
Beard
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Esteban scowled, said he'd already told her he wasn't hungry, and wandered off.
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Her smile broadened until it was as wide as a banana, and Lauren scowled at her.
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I'll even block my ears when the weathergirl comes on with a scowl and a map of fog or ice.
The Sun
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This particularly pissed Rory off, because he didn't do cocaine but was nonetheless widely assumed to and scowlingly disapproved of accordingly.
Be My Enemy
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Quark opened his eyes just long enough to recognize the scowling officer, Datar, a glinn, who waited for him with a coil of ODN cable.
THE FALL OF TEROK NOR
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We may laugh, scowl or mock initially, but eventually we usually recognize them as what they are and move on.
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So tomorrow I will bring it to work, put it in a common area, mutter LAWYERS and stamp off scowling.
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Umber wheezed and puffed with the effort, while Oates ran with a scowl on his face, ready to strike at anything that confronted them.
End of Time
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The people glared at us scowlingly, and even when the grand procession passed on the way to escort Margaret from the palace they remained mute.
For The Admiral
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As they turned towards the house, John rose, sullenly, and wrapping a handkerchief round his wounded arm, which was bleeding profusely, he glanced scowlingly at his brother.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
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See how the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly, like eyes that have been hurt in drunken frays.
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To our right, the Sunchulli glacier towered above the calm turquoise water of Laguna Verde, beyond which scowled a dark, brooding ridge, protected at its base by impossibly steep scree.
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She scowled, crossing her arms beneath her ample bosom.
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If there is anything more pleasing than a man in a suit with a scowl on his face, we can't think of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just think of the red stripes on the scowling face of the male Mandrill, Africa's largest monkey species.
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Scuffed by bark and the sharp ends of numerous twigs, Emien scowled down at the footpage who had nearly caused him to tear his best shirt.
Stormwarden
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Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith; and at morning or eventide, when the family knelt down at prayer, he scowled and muttered to himself, and gazed sternly at his wife, and turned away.
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What appears to be a commercial-ended product scowls at its own small coterie of advisors and grins fatuously at all the end-users.
Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
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She wore a black swimsuit, a huge straw hat with the brim pinned back and a bad-tempered scowl.
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Marlo shrugged away, trying to mask his smile with a scowl, which only resulted in a tight-lipped frown, eyes twinkling.
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I sneered and scowled, windmilled and duckwalked, picked and plucked.
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They're the most chain-smoking, self-deprecating bunch of scowling gits you could imagine.
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She goggled her eyes at Bella, who scowled in return.
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He scowled at the computer screen in front of him, drumming his fingers on the desk impatiently.
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He turned and suppressed a scowl when he spotted Jaden dancing with Leona.
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It is only a matter of minutes and the child is soon speeding away, his face screwed up in a scowl.
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Some people kind of squint or scowl when they get tired.
Cooley: Haynesworth is not isolated
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He scowled slightly and started to clench and unclench his fists in a slow pattern.
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Just think of the red stripes on the scowling face of the male Mandrill, Africa's largest monkey species. But red is not exclusively a male trait.
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He had the breakfast room to himself and was scowling into a newspaper.
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Cecil scowls as we take our seats in the wherry; Dee fidgets; only Walsingham appears unconcerned, but I see him looking back toward the High Street and catch the calculation in his gaze.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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Abrigant, likewise, stayed at the apiary 's edge, his face darkened by a perpetual scowl.
LORD PRESTIMION
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Darius scowled blackly at the memory, his head still throbbing painfully from the spy's vicious assault.
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Her knife caught on a knot, and she scowled at the branch.
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There was a slight scowl on his face as his lips tightened to a thin line and his brow wrinkled in irritated contemplation.
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Most seemed to be in caustic middle age, faces blank or scowling.
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In Ezra Pound's translation of Li Po's "The River-Merchant's Wife," we are moved by the thousand-year-old voice of a young bride in China: "At fifteen, I stopped scowling, / I desired my dust to be mingled with yours / Forever and forever, and forever.
How Memorization Makes Words Live
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Owen scowled, annoyed the subject had jumped from cute girls to school in a matter of seconds.
