Example sentences for: countenance

How can you use “countenance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That is the ultimate blessing in the key Judeo-Christian benediction: "May the Lord bless you and keep you, may He lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace."

  • Another honeycombed stairway carved from the cliff leads back up the other side, coming out level with Buddha’s massive crown, where you have a view of the Buddha’s serene and knowing countenance.

  • A deceased vampire should not explode, disintegrate, burst, morph, or molder but should serenely resume countenance pertaining at the time of its transmogrification.

  • Dwelly gives a `ripple on the surface of water'; and MacLennan says, `bristles, anger, a girning expression of countenance.

  • I rarely, verging on never, spit out food, yet this was so repulsive in its texture (mucousy sludge) and taste (not exactly sure what it was, but not cookies 'n creme, I can for sure tell you that) that I could not countenance digesting it.


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