Example sentences for: demeanor

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

  • It's the bleary, hangdog demeanor; the watery eyes; the shambling gait; the passiveness that borders on the stereotypically feminine.

  • In a real courtroom, he and Fridlund-Horne agreed, a person's entire demeanor is a part of the evidence that the judge sees.

  • "[A]fter all this time, a role that suits his rocklike demeanor perfectly and makes virtues of his expressive limitations" (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Slow-paced and minimalist, the film is hailed as an anti-blockbuster: It "achieves a rare, and rarely earned, emotional depth ...

  • Ed Bryant, a Republican, may have given away the game with his reason, quoted in the Los Angeles Times : Wouldn't you want, he asked the Senate yesterday, to observe her demeanor and "look into her eyes"?

  • Why doesn't some enterprising reporter go ask Bentsen what his impression of Willey's demeanor was?


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