Usage of "make a face"

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

Sinónimos

Examples for "grimace"

Examples for "grimace"

He smiled; and the quality of the grimace was not exactly reassuring. 
 The Moon Pool 

Really smile, not grimace, and that is a difficult thing to do. 
 The eyes of a king 

Kitty made a grimace at the short hair left in her hand. 
 Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party 

She gives up the attempt with a little grimace, and goes in. 
 Recollections of My Childhood and Youth 

The way one might grimace while beseeching God to grant one patience. 
 Seduced by a highlander 

I pull a face as she marches out the room and slams the door. 
 The Atrocity Archives 

I pull a face like I'm not so easily impressed. 
 The Irish Times 

Chanele didn't pull a face and it wasn't easy. 
 Melnitz 

It's my turn to pull a face now. 
 The Atrocity Archives 

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 

Uso de make a face en inglés

Raskolnikoff felt again a strong impulse to make a face at him. 
 The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na... 

I sipped my hot Yoo-hoo, and tried not to make a face. 
 Exit strategy 

Minna would raise her eyes, lightly shrug her shoulders, and make a face. 
 Jean-Christophe, Volume I 

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... 

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it. 
 North and South 

Then I'd make a face to let them know that I'd fooled them again. 
 Spitting off tall buildings 

I make a face at the phone, look up again. 
 The godfather of kathmandu 

I make a face, and wave the thought of the two of them away. 
 The White Queen 

I make a face at him, but pull on the boot like he asked. 
 Unraveled 

Of course, if you make a face at him. 
 Youth and the Bright Medusa 

Instead of a smile, he found her threatening to make a face if he persisted. 
 The Court of Boyville 

His wife would usually make a face of her own in response to that grin. 
 American empire: blood and iron 

If Lancer chose to follow intelligence of this sort, policy required he make a face-to-face interview. 
 The panic zone 

Dixon didn't make a face; he was afraid she might see it reflected in the window-pane. 
 Lucky Jim 

He told it her again, and she made a face at him. 
 International Short Stories: French 

She made a face at me from behind a vase of flowers. 
 An Amiable Charlatan 

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Make a face a través del tiempo

Make a face por variante geográfica

Reino Unido

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Estados Unidos de América

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Significados de make a face en inglés