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Example sentences for: countenance

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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.
Dwelly gives a `ripple on the surface of water'; and MacLennan says, `bristles, anger, a girning expression of countenance.
The Sunday papers placed the blame for the deadlock on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's intransigent refusal to countenance a NATO-led force as peacekeepers, despite the fact that Kosovo Albanians were holding out for a referendum on independence once the three year interim period covered by the proposed settlement expired.
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."
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.