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How to use grimaces in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word grimaces? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
I can't stand his strained voice. I can't stand his underbite and the way he grimaces when he sings.
I was brought up watching the painful grimaces of bonking cyclists attempting the inane.
The patient grimaces, clamping down on a mouth guard designed to prevent tongue-biting and broken teeth.
Unharmonious features, startled eyes and grimaces are characteristic of this region.
Watch for signs of pain eg. grimaces, crying out, moaning, changes in behaviour, increased agitation, anxiety, sleep problems.
Occasionally he grimaces, as if he were biting down on the golden flames in his mouth.
Here, behind neat low fences, an iguanodon, with its horned nose, grimaces at the boating lake.
As I read out reviews of an old Bill Nighy performance, the actor grimaces and drums his knuckles on the table.
It is January in the Middle West and people are sliding across the iced campus walkways, their faces freezing into grimaces whenever a stiff wind gusts off the river.
There was some mild pain but, other than a few grimaces which her audience didn't see because she was in constant action and far enough away, she managed to stifle most of it.
But then, with their contorted physiques and feral grimaces they speak directly to the Basquiats.
I don't have time to get bored with my daily stretching, my many grimaces and my various hobbies.
He grimaces and takes a slug of coffee to get him through the horror of the thought.
Noise, pollution and grimaces tend to undo any good that nature has done.
Stoic and economical in his movements, expressing emotional pain through tight-lipped grimaces and squinty eyes, Mortenson is the perfect cowboy hero.
We will watch the moving grimaces of the 54-year-old man, prematurely old from heavy drinking and crying, who stands yet the test of time laughing.
This finds expression in frightful grimaces and uncontrolled agitation of the limbs, sometimes so violent that assistants have to surround the person possessed and cushion their movements.
On the other hand, too much playing, talking, or feeding may be met by grimaces, turning or looking away, clenched fists, thrashing arms and legs, hiccupping, wriggling, and spitting up.
The corners of my lips stiffen from the effort of responding to their smiles and, at the same time, I begin to understand that these labial grimaces are not so much open doors as barriers behind which they take refuge.
Tebereh grimaces as mist gathers and worries about her five other children she has left at home, especially her youngest son, who has been sick for the last few days.
Examples from Classical Literature
Standing there, with his arms stretched out like an exerciser, he made some grimaces, whose meaning was obvious to the prisoners.
Soon after these grimaces, Chresten came with a dish full of soft-boiled eggs.
In that, the eye rested, with undisguised delight, upon the grimaces of grinning candidates for the honours of the horse-collar.
Conjunctivitis, rhinitis, odontalgia, may occasion grimaces and contortions which cease with the disappearance of the irritation.
Indeed, the townspeople spoke of this fruit with grimaces of disgust.
Such curious starts and grimaces did he indulge in that one was forced to conclude that he was scarcely in his right mind.
She turns grimaces to grins as she paints parrots and kitties on cherubic cheeks.
Heyward took the gourd, and after swallowing a little of the water, threw it aside with grimaces of discontent.
He brings out the usual repertoire of steely glares and hard-mouthed grimaces that we all know and love but it's all far more Clint Eastwood than Terry McCaleb.
The doctor's manipulations brought out neither grimaces nor moans.
Then there were howling choruses, accompanied by endless dances by gangs of natives who circled round and round the sacred hut with contortions and grimaces.
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