Usage of "make a face"

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

Uso de make a face em inglês

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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Verbo

Determinante

Substantivo

Make a face ao longo do tempo

Make a face nas variantes da língua

Reino Unido

Comum

Estados Unidos da América

Comum

Significados de make a face em inglês