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Example sentences for: grimace

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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.
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.
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 ...
What he sees twists Cage's hitherto poker face into an increasingly Eastwoodesque grimace.
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.