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Example sentences for: grimace

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John Keats' life was an accelerated grimace.
Also the freeze-frame on her in the classroom, her hand waving in the air like a tentacle, her eye-lid half closed, her lips moving into position for that grin that wants to ingratiate but looks like a grimace.
I remember, in art school, watching otherwise mild-mannered students hyperventilate, grimace, and lunge at their canvases, trying desperately to imitate de Kooning's slashing gestures.
As Martin, attired in an exquisite light-blue dress shirt buttoned at the neck, watches from a couch, sipping cranberry juice,...Martin on screen is making a weird birthing grimace and taking eggs out of his pants.
The recently released Dick portrays the president, as Stephen Holden wrote in the New York Times , "with his hunched shoulders, darting paranoid gaze and crocodile grimace ...