Example sentences for: countenance

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • The NYT interprets this to mean that Serbs are willing to countenance "armed foreigners on their territory," which might be a first step towards some sort of agreement.

  • 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.


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