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Example sentences for "frowning"

Lexicographically close words:
froward; frowardness; frown; frowne; frowned; frowningly; frowns; frowsy; frowzy; froze
  1. A steady roar of the fall, and a rippling sound above it of bursting bubbles and crossing wavelets of the hastening stream, notched and furrowed over stones, frowning in eager haste.

  2. He was silent for a little, his frowning gaze fixed beyond any visible object, then he added: "Put that back where you found it and forget everything.

  3. The road mounted abruptly, turned under a frowning wall incongruously topped with delicately painted urns, and doubled across the massive iron-bound door that closed the arched entrance.

  4. As he stood frowning in thought he saw the figure of a strange man walking over the road; Lemuel knew that he was strange by the formality of the clothes.

  5. Again Mrs. Culpeper made a vague frowning movement of her eyebrows and gently shook her head; but the gesture of disapproval to which her husband had responded obediently was entirely wasted upon her youngest daughter.

  6. From the smiling bays of Devonshire To the frowning cliffs of Filey, Leaps forth every son of an English sire, To fight for his native isley.

  7. He crossed Townsend street, passed the frowning face of Bethel.

  8. On her flower frowning miss Douce said: --Most aggravating that young brat is.

  9. His eyeglass flashed frowning in the sun.

  10. But the Tribune, with frowning brow, cried: "Such speeches drive away the goddess of victory and summon the avenger of foolhardiness.

  11. In the vessel's sick bay, a white-coated medical officer bent frowning over one of the ten occupied berths.

  12. Don Winslow took a turn up and down the cabin's narrow space, frowning as he chewed mentally on Red's suggestion.

  13. The little body cast so frowning a glance upon them as she stood in the doorway that her expression was but slightly less lowering than her father's.

  14. He stepped in-doors, took down his rifle from the rack, and went out frowning into the sunlight.

  15. Then he looked up at the dark frowning faces of his mother's brothers, and gurgled with laughter, showing the fascinating spectacle of his two front teeth.

  16. She leaned forward and looked up at him with frowning intensity.

  17. Some, frowning portentously, thought the plane an unscheduled ocean flier who had lost his way in the fog.

  18. We turned at right angles and ran toward where the distant frowning walls of Archimedes loomed against the starlit sky.

  19. He sat there, frowning intently for a moment, and then dragged the antenna wearily from his head.

  20. In the dim light, the tension of her slender figure, her frowning brow, her locked arms and hands, made of her a threatening Fate hovering darkly above the man in his deep, defenceless sleep.

  21. Daphne's intense gaze, under the slightly frowning brows, disquieted him.

  22. She stood thinking, her fine face, so open-browed and purely lined, frowning and distressed.

  23. Her half-frowning eyes gave the impression that she was still out of temper and on edge.

  24. For a moment or two Anne looked into his frowning eyes, and then she drew back into the corner of the couch, a queer shudder running through her body.

  25. I see," she said, frowning very darkly for her.

  26. From all this riot and madness of pleasure, Michael Angelo stood aside with frowning brow and scornful mien.

  27. Finally, Rome so resented his frowning looks and his surly ways that work was provided for him at a distance.

  28. He rounded the shadow of the galley house and stared at the frowning headland of Indian Point, then turned and glanced out over the waters of the Bering Strait.

  29. The Pole Star glided under the frowning guns of the Presidio, and danced across the bar.

  30. One morning early we made the venture in a melancholy drizzle of rain, and passed through the frowning gates unmolested.

  31. If only they could win a way to the interior, and reach the land-locked waters of the bay which opened up behind the frowning barrier they must yet scale, in all likelihood they would at least obtain a plentiful store of shell-fish.

  32. He waved again, and turned resolutely to scan the frowning headlands now rapidly closing in on both sides of the vessel's path.

  33. Compared with the sullen, frowning realm of rock they had quitted, this eastern side of the island resembled a Paradise.

  34. Thus the hidden herd grew rapidly and it was not long before a large herd grazed close to the edge of the precipitous cliffs frowning down on the cold, hard-looking Black Jack.

  35. Ned Monroe's face cleared of the frowning perplexity that had darkened it at first sight of the hoof prints they tracked.

  36. The Colonel nodded, frowning gravely over his pipe at the opposite window.

  37. Her dark blue eyes, set deeply under seriously frowning childish brows, surveyed Jerome with innocent wonder; her pretty mouth drooped anxiously at the corners.

  38. He looked steadily at her, frowning significantly.

  39. She did not notice Jerome again, and he sat frowning moodily at the floor.

  40. Her eyes were fixed on the frowning castle, on the grim double line of men-at-arms, at the massive horse and its massive rider.

  41. When she stopped to rest it was to look back with wistful eyes toward the frowning castle on the cliff.

  42. He was seated at the table and frowning with science as he observed the unfortunates through that magnifying-glass, his discovery of which was responsible for their present condition and his own choice of a career.

  43. Herbert, frowning with the burden of composition, sat at a table beyond the official railing, and his partner was engaged at the press, earnestly setting type.

  44. At lunch time, Tim came home, frowning and silent.

  45. She was frowning because the sun was in her eyes.

  46. On that frowning height the busy hands of Pemberton's soldiers had reared mighty batteries, that commanded the Mississippi for miles up and down stream.

  47. Under its frowning casemates the ships of the United States could lie without fear of attack from the thousands of discontented men who made of Baltimore a secession city.

  48. On the placid waters of the bay, under the frowning walls of Fortress Monroe, floated fifty men-of-war and transports.

  49. But the husband sat frowning and listening to the end of the speech, vouchsafing to her whisper only the single growl: "Don't be a fool, Selina!

  50. Opposite was the base-ball team, frowning and sturdy; to the right the Glee Club with himself as their leader; to the left a group of his classmates, with his special chum in the midst.

  51. Starr with sudden inspiration born of the moment, got up and went over to where the dark-browed Buck stood frowning and embarrassed in the chimney corner and put out her little roseleaf of a hand to him.

  52. But Buck stood dark and frowning against the closed door, his hunted eyes like black coals in a setting of snow, went furtively around the room in restless vigilance.

  53. He looked up frowning and was about to send any chance client away, with the explanation that he was entirely too much occupied at present to be interrupted, when the face of the woman who opened the door caught his attention.

  54. All were flourishing, the palms and mangroves had shot up in a most marvelous manner, and many of the seeds which I had cast at random among the cliffs in the rocks had germinated, and promised to clothe the nakedness of the frowning bowlders.

  55. Nothing could we see, however, but the frowning rocks and cliffs, and the waves beating restlessly at their base.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frowning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    black; dark; decorous; dejected; demure; dour; earnest; formal; frowning; glowering; glum; grave; grim; grum; lowering; melancholy; moody; moping; morose; sedate; serious; sober; solemn; somber; staid; stern; sullen; surly; thoughtful; unsmiling; weighty