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Meanings of make a face in English

Contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state.

Synonyms
Examples for "grimace"
Examples for "grimace"
1
He smiled; and the quality of the grimace was not exactly reassuring.
The Moon Pool
2
Really smile, not grimace, and that is a difficult thing to do.
The eyes of a king
3
Kitty made a grimace at the short hair left in her hand.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
4
She gives up the attempt with a little grimace, and goes in.
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth
5
The way one might grimace while beseeching God to grant one patience.
Seduced by a highlander
1
I pull a face as she marches out the room and slams the door.
The Atrocity Archives
2
I pull a face like I'm not so easily impressed.
The Irish Times
3
Chanele didn't pull a face and it wasn't easy.
Melnitz
4
It's my turn to pull a face now.
The Atrocity Archives
5
I shall pull a face as long as a fiddle, and yawn my head half off while I'm clearing up.
A Countess from Canada: A Story of Life in the Backwoods
Usage of make a face in English
1
Raskolnikoff felt again a strong impulse to make a face at him.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
2
I sipped my hot Yoo-hoo, and tried not to make a face.
Exit strategy
3
Minna would raise her eyes, lightly shrug her shoulders, and make a face.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
4
Needn't make a face, Bumpus, because you think you'll never eat fish again.
The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island; or, Marooned Among the Game-f...
5
He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.
North and South
6
Then I'd make a face to let them know that I'd fooled them again.
Spitting off tall buildings
7
I make a face at the phone, look up again.
The godfather of kathmandu
8
I make a face, and wave the thought of the two of them away.
The White Queen
9
I make a face at him, but pull on the boot like he asked.
Unraveled
10
Of course, if you make a face at him.
Youth and the Bright Medusa
11
Instead of a smile, he found her threatening to make a face if he persisted.
The Court of Boyville
12
His wife would usually make a face of her own in response to that grin.
American empire: blood and iron
13
If Lancer chose to follow intelligence of this sort, policy required he make a face-to-face interview.
The panic zone
14
Dixon didn't make a face; he was afraid she might see it reflected in the window-pane.
Lucky Jim
15
He told it her again, and she made a face at him.
International Short Stories: French
16
She made a face at me from behind a vase of flowers.
An Amiable Charlatan
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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