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Example sentences for "eyebrow"

Lexicographically close words:
exuviations; exyle; eye; eyeball; eyeballs; eyebrows; eyed; eyeglass; eyeglasses; eyeholes
  1. He glanced up reproachfully, caught the comic lift of her eyebrow just like their father's, laughed, and felt better.

  2. Cleek watched him with upflung eyebrow and keen eye.

  3. Cleek in two different tones, arching an eyebrow in Mr. Narkom's direction.

  4. Freakishly the Older Man twisted his thin-lipped mouth and one glowering eyebrow into a surprisingly sudden and irresistible smile.

  5. Laboriously one eyebrow began to jerk its way up his forehead, and with a purely mechanical instinct he reached up drolly and pulled it down again.

  6. Men lifted an eyebrow and called it "equivocal"--to use the phrase of Clement Shorter.

  7. Occasionally, he showed impatience if any one by even the lifting of an eyebrow seemed to doubt the divinity of the Guggums.

  8. Above the right eyebrow was the wound of a pistol-ball, which must have gone directly into the brain; and the brow and forehead were scorched and blackened with the fire and smoke of the pistol--so near must have been his murderer.

  9. Jeremy shivered, took a step nearer, and almost cried out, for he had caught a glimpse of a livid, diagonal scar cutting across the nose from eyebrow to chin.

  10. But in that second of illumination they had seen framed in the torchlit cleft a pair of gleaming light eyes and a cruelly snarling mouth set in a face made horrible by the livid scar that ran from chin to eyebrow across its broken nose.

  11. The livid gray line of a sword-cut ran from his left eyebrow to his right cheek, and his nose was crushed inward where the scar crossed its bridge, giving him more the look of an animal than of a man.

  12. Late that afternoon, John Fremont Carson halted his mule on the eyebrow of a cliff and the caravan crowded together at imminent risk of one or more going overside.

  13. Where his left eyebrow once had been, was a hideous yellow scar that curved down as far as the cheek bone.

  14. First spake the imperial Olympian With archèd eyebrow smiling sovranly, Fulleyèd here.

  15. His features were delicate and finely chiseled, especially the nose, and one eyebrow was noticeably lifted, which gave him an alert expression.

  16. She had an archness in her smile, and one eyebrow noticeably uplifted, in a manner so strikingly like the baron’s that every one commented on it.

  17. Every eyebrow was going up, every mouth was drooping, and there was silence.

  18. By this answer Mr. Lavender was so impressed that he sat for a moment in silence, with his eyebrow working up and down.

  19. And, ruffling his hair till it stood up all over his head, while his loose eyebrow worked up and down, he gazed at the moon-cat.

  20. He looked back at her with meditative scrutiny, one eyebrow raised a little above the other.

  21. But as he opened the door he came face to face with Joe, who touched an eyebrow and jerked a thumb over his shoulder.

  22. The bartender lifted an eyebrow and jerked a thumb upward.

  23. So saying, off it came, and there was the curl above her eyebrow more wantonly alluring than ever.

  24. But he had great beetling, ape-like eyebrow ridges and massive jaws, and he showed "simian characters swarming in the details of his structure.

  25. Compared with an anthropoid ape, man has a bigger and more upright forehead, a less protrusive face region, smaller cheek-bones and eyebrow ridges, and more uniform teeth.

  26. He didn't even raise an eyebrow to do it.

  27. Pop Henderson listened, one scant old eyebrow raised knowingly, a whimsical half-smile screwing up his wrinkled face.

  28. Also she's a home-grown siren that works without the aid of a lip-stick, permanent wave, or an eyebrow pencil.

  29. Also she'd learned how to use a lip-stick and an eyebrow pencil.

  30. She cocked an eyebrow at her commanding officer.

  31. James frowned in mock reproach and ComOff Flurnoy cocked an eyebrow in surprise.

  32. In four of these cases there was also grayness of part of the eyebrow on the affected side.

  33. Across the nose and eyebrow there was a deep scar, which made the repulsive face grimmer.

  34. There were strips of very real sticking-plaster across his eyebrow and temple, where my stick had left its mark, to score, hereafter, among the more honorable scars of war.

  35. I have one patient who when he is going through a particular nervous strain plucks out the middle portion of his right eyebrow so that he has a distinct bald spot at this point.

  36. His left eyebrow had been parted by a cut now healed and forming its permanent scar.

  37. By a jailer who cut his eyebrow open with a blow, and knocked him down on the slightest pretext, the child had been forced to drown memory in fiery liquor, month after month.

  38. But they both approached the boy with a deference which surprised Eagle, and examined his scarred eyebrow and his wrists.

  39. Denton must have been in the same fix, for he looked at me and raised one eyebrow kind of humorous.

  40. Across his forehead ran a long gash, cutting his left eyebrow square in two.

  41. Again in 1914 the eyebrow window was removed, and dormers inserted in the roof.

  42. A small eyebrow window was placed in the roof to light the stairway, while the original porch on the west and south was carefully retained.

  43. I have some impressions--perhaps only prejudices dependent on the narrowness of my experience--about forms of eyebrow and their relation to passionate expression.

  44. He was a lightly-built, fragile man, with bushy curly hair, and a general shagginess of beard and eyebrow not unsuggestive of a Skye terrier.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyebrow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.