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Example sentences for "frown"

Lexicographically close words:
frou; frough; frow; froward; frowardness; frowne; frowned; frowning; frowningly; frowns
  1. Can't you forget you're a Judge And put by your dolorous frown And tan your wan face in the smile of a friend-- Can't you arrange to come down?

  2. There was a faint anxious frown on his forehead.

  3. He felt the frown slipping, but it was a point of honor with him to retain it.

  4. Th' unpitying ministers of Turkish justice, Nor dare to spare the life his frown condemns.

  5. I thought at first he seemed pleased; but then that old frown came back on his face again, and he shook his head.

  6. He now came up to Hugh with a decided frown visible on his round face.

  7. She detached her frown from the Doctor's house-front, climbed down out of the buggy, accompanied Jared and the Doctor indoors, and he made them one forthwith.

  8. Virgilia's teeth began to feel for her lips, and her eyebrows to draw themselves down in an impatient little frown of disappointment.

  9. The Ffolliot boys shouted, and for once Mr Ffolliot forebore to frown on them.

  10. But why does Tararo frown and look so angry?

  11. If superstition will interpret an untimely death, [65] if the merit of counsels be judged from the event, the heavens may seem to frown on a measure of such apparent season and propriety.

  12. Heaven and this virtuous lady know them--nay, frown not, Prince.

  13. A frown from thee can do more than all my father's severity.

  14. Let there not be one frown in this one hour.

  15. Cold after warm, winter after summer, and the golden leaves, these earls and barons, that clung to me, frosted off me by the first cold frown of the King.

  16. And then they mock'd us and we fell upon 'em, For we would live and die for thee, my lord, However kings and queens may frown on thee.

  17. Reggie looked blankly at a clock on the wall and a puzzled frown spread over his equine features.

  18. The frown gradually faded from his face as his eyes lingered on the page.

  19. How the old people would frown and shake their heads at you!

  20. A frown of portentous dimension clouded the brow of Mrs. Arbuthnot as she turned ruthlessly to the picture of amused cynicism who sat beside her.

  21. That distinguished personage was seated greatly at her ease, yet with a slight frown upon her somewhat imperious countenance.

  22. You shall not frown him into a virtuous act.

  23. Mercy shall look with eyes like thine on me Though justice frown beside.

  24. Do not frown on me: I ne'er had told thee, but for comfort's sake, Lest thou shouldst think that thou hadst slain thy daughter.

  25. They talked lightly but confidentially until Sir John approached them with a slight frown upon his face.

  26. The maid discreetly withdrew, and Anna stood transfixed, gazing with puzzled frown at her sister.

  27. They saw that the frown had come back again to his usually smooth forehead, as though he had learned something to add to the perplexities of the problem they were trying so diligently to solve.

  28. But that iron set frown on the young brow would not have unbent even for the silver.

  29. The set angry frown was the only distinguishing mark--like the dents on a penny made by a hobnail boot, by which it can be known from twenty otherwise precisely similar.

  30. A little hurt that he should have galloped on so hastily, she set about some household affairs, resolved to think no more of him that morning, and to give him a frown when he came in the evening.

  31. The cheated nation's happy fav'rites see; Mark whom the great caress, who frown on me.

  32. Miss Eustasia in the long parlor on one side of the hall is hurrying here and hurrying there, a little frown of bother and of earnestness between her brows, marshalling some classes into line, whirling others about face to face in couples.

  33. Sarah was a manager, but having yet to manage for Emmy Lou her frown was perturbed.

  34. Henry gazed on him with a stern look, which the other not only endured without dismay, but seemed to return with a frown of defiance.

  35. Nay, never frown nor fume, Sir Damian; if you know not your safest course, we know it for you.

  36. I have not undertaken a resolute and daring adventure, to resign it as a child doth his plaything, at the first frown of fortune.

  37. You reach it from here either by a hideous contrivance called the Shaft, fashioned in the cliffs that frown down upon Snargate Street, or by Limekiln Street beyond.

  38. Downs stretch on either side of the tiny village and frown down upon it, making its insignificance more marked and its little cottages and little church look like toys.

  39. As, however, she now saw the frown upon his face, her heart and courage failed her; and in proportion as she had previously fortified her mind with hopeful confidence, a terrible reaction of apprehension overcame her.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    color; deprecate; disapprove; discountenance; disesteem; disfavor; flush; frown; glare; gloom; glower; gnarl; grimace; growl; lour; lower; mantle; object; offense; pique; pout; redden; scowl; snap; snarl; spit; umbrage