Example sentences for: grimacing

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

  • The cover of Angry Johnny and the Killbillies' album, Hankenstein , shows Hank Williams drawn like Frankenstein's monster; the cover of a Bloodshot alternative-country anthology called Hell-Bent parodies a famous photo of a grimacing, emaciated Williams in an Alabama jail.

  • The center of the capital is a kaleidoscope of golden rooftops, multicolored costumes, steep temple steps layered with wares like market shelves, country women hawking produce spread on the streets, sari-draped matrons placing flower petals on altars to grimacing gods, the sudden eruption of a band of musicians or a herd of goats across your path, the scent of marigold garlands and of dumplings fried in oil, the constant jangling of bicycle bells and rickshaw horns.

  • His grimacing convict in Great Expectations seemed less in need of food and shelter than of a swig of Maalox.

  • Read the book to learn what he's thinking and feeling, because all Gorris gives us is a guy grimacing on a couch and a lot of distant explosions to signal his flashbacks.

  • When moaning, groaning, and grimacing accompany the agitation and restlessness, they are frequently interpreted as physical pain (90).


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