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Example sentences for "lips parted"

  • Hilton stood before her, his breath a trifle quick, lips parted greedily.

  • She stared about her as one will who rouses abruptly from a startling dream, lips parted, a hand to her flushed throat, breath quick and irregular.

  • The girl looked quickly to Beal, lips parted in surprise.

  • Saxe's lips parted to speak, but the guide held up his hand.

  • Fraide's lips parted as if to make reply, but with a certain dignified reticence he closed them again and turned away.

  • The other's lips parted for a quick retort; then in a surprising way the retort seemed to fail him.

  • One moment my lips parted ready to utter a cry; but that cry, in spite of several attempts, was not uttered.

  • The man's lips parted, and one hand went up towards his head, while the mahout who had brought him looked back with his face full of horror.

  • At last I concluded to shout for help, and my lips parted, but no sound came.

  • Stratton's lips parted in an almost inaudible, "Yes.

  • Stratton's lips parted, but no sound came; his emotion was too great.

  • Under the mask Jimmie Dale's lips parted in a smile that seemed almost apologetic, as he viewed the helpless iron monstrosity that was little more than an insult to a trained cracksman.

  • Millie and Rosa were leaning forward, lips parted, eyes wide, drinking in every word.

  • Suddenly Norma’s lips parted for a scream of warning.

  • She stood, lips parted, eyes shining, sturdy young body erect, very sure of herself and unafraid.

  • Mrs Hallam's lips parted, but no words came, and for the moment she seemed to be sharing her child's mental shock, the terrible disillusioning to which she had been subjected.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also made; beauty and; both together; considerable body; could play; good soil; haue taken; lips parted; lips were; little sister; more efficient; mother died; mountain chains; other place; pure thought; recovered himself; seventy guns; shall slay; she sobbed; state church; strong escort; suggested that; this castle