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Meanings of very expressive in English

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Usage of very expressive in English
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Pick out some words or phrases that seem to you very expressive.
Graded Lessons in English / An Elementary English Grammar Consis...
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His lavish style of entertainment they labelled 'swank'-horribleword but very expressive!
Bat Wing
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The corner of his very expressive mouth twitched, and he grinned at her.
Jason: A Romance
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They are wise and honorable, and their silence is very expressive.
American Eloquence, Volume 2 / Studies In American Political His...
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But your eyes can be very expressive when you let them, Thomas-understanding even.
Take a Chance on Me
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Sheila's small and very expressive face showed a little gleam of amused contempt.
Hidden Creek
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Well those illiterates, as you called them, happen to have very expressive prose voices.
The Big U
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What I could see of his face was bare of beard, and very expressive.
Initials Only
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Many of the faces that we had just seen were very expressive-indeed ,painfullyso.
Cast Adrift
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It was a cruel look, very expressive of scorn, abhorrence, and perhaps of fear.
Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia
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It is certainly a very expressive work of art.
The Guardian
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Whenever she wished for anything very much she would gesticulate in a very expressive manner.
The Story of My Life / With her letters (1887-1901) and a supple...
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It's just that neither of us is very expressive.
The Duff
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She made it very expressive, I can tell you.
Ghost Story
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A very expressive glance was telegraphed around our circle.
The Story of a Summer / Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua
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Her face is very , very expressive. Q: How hard was it finding the right girl?
Reuters
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Very expressive through the time
Very expressive across language varieties
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United States of America
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