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Example sentences for "pucker"

Lexicographically close words:
pubs; pucca; puce; puch; puchero; puckered; puckering; puckers; pudden; puddin
  1. His light grey-blue eyes were smiling, yet there was a pucker of anxiety between his eyebrows, as he put von Herrnung's case.

  2. His eyes were anxious and a little pucker showed between his reddish eyebrows.

  3. Rupert, seeing a little trouble in the child's eyes, a pucker about the corners of her mouth.

  4. I am afraid," she added, with a pucker of her forehead, which had latterly grown habitual when she was troubled or perplexed.

  5. Holland, leaning against her and looking up into her face with an anxious little pucker on his forehead.

  6. A little expression of doubt showed in the anxious pucker of her forehead.

  7. Callista watched Judge Mann hurry into the courtroom, all business, dark pucker of a frown, the black robe too priestlike.

  8. Mr. Pucker grew redder and hotter than before, and gasped like a fish out of water.

  9. And Mr. Pucker put his hat on the ground, and sat down at the table in a state of blushing nervousness.

  10. But I have been examined," Mr. Pucker kept on saying dejectedly.

  11. Five minutes afterwards, as the dejected Mr. Pucker was crawling out of the quad, Filcher came and led him back to the rooms of Mr. Slowcoach, the real examining tutor.

  12. Mr. Pucker did not know what to make of such extraordinary and unexpected questions.

  13. The appealing gaze was answered by our hero ordering Mr. Pucker to hand in his paper, and reply to the questions on history and Euclid.

  14. Whissling iz compozed ov pucker and wind, and these two accomplishments denote vigor.

  15. But i want it well understood that i am the last man on reckord who would refuse a woman a chance tew whissell if she waz certain she had the right pucker for it.

  16. Good whisslers are gitting skarse, 75 years ago they waz plenty, but the desire tew git ritch, or tew hold offiss, haz took the pucker out ov this honest, and cheerful amuzement.

  17. With an expression of determined resolution the baby rolls off again; and if you attempt another remove, an ominous pucker of the forehead warns you to desist.

  18. Shaking back her curls, she looked up at it defiantly and made a face at it, just the ugliest pucker of a face she could twist her little features into.

  19. When they sewed she sewed with them, even when she was so small that she had to have the thread tied in the needle's eye, and could do no more than pucker up a piece of soft goods into big wallops.

  20. Usually, at the mention of some particularly pleasing toy Georgina would trot off happily to find it; but to-day she stood with her face drawn into a rebellious pucker and scowled at her mother savagely.

  21. As she came walking in, looking very tired but as composed as ever, she observed that every vestige of the unfortunate fete had disappeared, except a suspicious pucker about the corners of Jo's mouth.

  22. So, too, that infallible "gauge of temperament," whose dial is the pucker between the eyebrows.

  23. To a stranger the pucker of concentration between her eyebrows might almost have suggested sullenness.

  24. I can see yet the queer little heart-shaped pucker that dented the muscle-knotted calf of her leg when she swung up to the tips of her toes.

  25. As though to toss the pucker away he tossed back his whole head and ran to Tiger Lily and threw his arms around Tiger Lily's neck.

  26. A little pucker came and blacked itself between his eyebrows.

  27. When you came in, you had a stand-off sort of air, and a little hard pucker between your eyes, as if you were expecting to confront an army of enemies.

  28. A little pucker was between her eyebrows, she was biting her under lip perplexedly, and appeared to be hesitating.

  29. But through all there was a tight compression of the lips, which spoke of the earnest purpose which governed her thoughts; a slight pucker of the brows, which surely told of a great concentration of mind.

  30. She paused, and an ominous pucker drew her brows together.

  31. Phillis looked into the teapot to gain a moment's reprieve; the corners of her mouth had an odd pucker in them.

  32. Mona did not notice the little anxious pucker of her mother's forehead.

  33. A severe, little pucker settled upon her brow, and not once, but many times her eyes turned to the broad entrance across the sidewalk.

  34. At three minutes past four the pucker made its first appearance; and now, several minutes later, it was quite distressing.

  35. In that moment the nervous pucker between her eyes ironed out ever so little, and something resembling a wan smile crept into her face.

  36. Terry, at the piano, would pucker her pretty brow a moment.

  37. Strange to say, it was that little pucker and the look of worry which decided Dr.

  38. A host of housewifely cares began to troop through Katy's mind, and a little pucker came into her forehead, and a worried look across the face which had been so bright a few minutes before.

  39. Old Volodia with the frame in one hand, Daria on a low stool, her curly golden head bent forward over the balls, as she moved them up and down, with a pucker on her forehead.

  40. In the salon, Herr Bjornson, with a pucker on his forehead, was adding up his Bee accounts--for he kept a number of hives in the garden and fields belonging to him.

  41. She herself was the only one of the number who had any pretensions to roundness of outline, all the rest were thin to angularity, half the number wore pince-nez or spectacles, and all had the same strained pucker round the eyes.

  42. In truth, the excellence of the performance was no great inducement to listen, and Mrs Willoughby's forehead showed a pucker of anxiety.

  43. In the morning Mary came over to the store very early indeed, and her face was in a pucker of dissatisfaction and discontent.

  44. Phil came in from the store at this moment, with a pucker of amusement on his face.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pucker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviate; agitation; apprehension; bother; care; chaos; circumscribe; cloud; cockle; compact; compress; concentrate; concern; condense; confusion; consolidate; constrict; contract; corrugation; cramp; crease; crimp; crinkle; crumple; curtail; daze; decrease; discomfiture; discomposure; disorder; disorganization; disquiet; distress; disturbance; draw; dread; embarrassment; fear; flap; flurry; fluster; flutter; fog; fold; foreboding; frenzy; fret; fuddle; furrow; fuss; gather; haze; inquietude; jumble; knit; knot; lather; malaise; maze; mess; misgiving; mist; muddle; narrow; nervousness; perplexity; perturbation; pother; pucker; purse; reduce; ridge; ripple; ruck; ruffle; rumple; shorten; shuffle; solicitude; solidify; stew; strain; strangle; suspense; sweat; tension; trouble; twitter; uneasiness; upset; vexation; wrinkle; zeal