Example sentences for: face

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

  • Currently it adheres to a policy that postage will be sold at face value, regardless of the costs associated with its sale.

  • Yet — quite remarkably, in the face of the ongoing tourism onslaught — parts of the Algarve retain their old-fashioned charm.

  • Gorbachev, by contrast, desperately tried to save the regime, adopted glasnost and perestroika to that end, and saw the system blow up in his face.

  • A few reviewers are horrified by the amped-up gore (a man cuts off his own face, feeds it to dogs, then has the dogs' stomachs pumped so he can try to have the recovered nose surgically reattached).

  • In Japan, the daily Mainichi Shimbun condemned India in an editorial Thursday for "foolish actions, which go against the universal desire to wipe such weapons of mass destruction from the face of the Earth."


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