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Example sentences for "eyebrows"

Lexicographically close words:
exyle; eye; eyeball; eyeballs; eyebrow; eyed; eyeglass; eyeglasses; eyeholes; eyeing
  1. His father stopped him, his spectacles tipped up into his white hair, and his gray eyes half hidden under eyebrows like a shaggy Scotch deer-hound's.

  2. Paul would have approached her, but a mere motion of her fine eyebrows warned him off.

  3. Her lips curled, her eyes opened wide with a dancing beryl-coloured flame behind them, and her eyebrows arched in a sublime disdain.

  4. Her eyebrows had a pathetic lift, and her gaze was on the sky, beyond the curtains and the window-panes.

  5. The eyebrows must be darker than the hair, arched, and not too broad, as though drawn with a pencil, the space between them not too broad.

  6. A Persian treatise on the figurative terms relating to beauty shows that the hair should be black, abundant, and wavy, the eyebrows dark and arched.

  7. He mentions that in the Acta Sanctorum it is stated that Saint Godelive of Bruges, though otherwise beautiful, had black hair and eyebrows and was hence contemptuously called a crow.

  8. The eyebrows and eyelashes should also be dark in order to increase the apparent size of the orbits.

  9. Her brown eyebrows are semicircular, not too bushy, and the individual hairs short.

  10. Walker lifted his eyebrows in a very odd manner, which Frank did not fail to observe.

  11. She lifted her eyebrows and pursed her lips a bit.

  12. Pantaleone started and raised his eyebrows so high that they were lost under his overhanging hair.

  13. Her eyebrows rose, her eyes grew wider, and shone with joy.

  14. She sat eating alone, on high beneath the dais, heavy, silent, placid and so fair that her eyebrows appeared to be white upon her red forehead.

  15. From time to time his eyebrows lifted painfully, and he swallowed with an effort as if he were choking.

  16. He raised both his eyebrows heavily and looked first at the Lady Mary.

  17. The Lady Mary raised her eyebrows with a show of insolent astonishment that was for all the world like the King's.

  18. He lifted his black eyebrows at sight of them, and rubbed his thin hands with satisfaction.

  19. The Lady Mary raised her eyebrows and snickered ironically.

  20. The King called out, 'By God, goodman Bishop, you have spoken well!

  21. Her sister Maids of Honour turned their backs upon her.

  22. I am like to have to do with none at all,' Katharine answered, 'for no mother's son cometh anigh me.

  23. She turned to look at Bob again, and with a haughty toss of her rather startling yellow curls raised her eyebrows in a supercilious glance of interrogation.

  24. He drew his hand significantly across his throat, raising his heavy eyebrows in a peculiar monkey grimace which had won for him his soubriquet.

  25. The line of his lips and the lower of his strongly marked eyebrows made strangers slow of approach.

  26. When Mose reported this, Delmar's eyebrows drew down over his hawklike eyes.

  27. Her fine, silky eyebrows were drawn a little closer together.

  28. His eyebrows were knitted, his thoughts had wandered away.

  29. His eyebrows had drawn a little closer together.

  30. I noticed, too, that his eyebrows met, like those of Madame Deslois.

  31. When he came to pay us a visit two or three days afterwards, I saw that he had white hair in little curls round his neck, and that his eyes and his eyebrows were very black.

  32. The Goodwood Plunger knit his eyebrows and closed the lids once or twice, and forced the mistiness and pain out of his eyes.

  33. The eyebrows all had a twirl reflective, Just like an eel: to spare invective There was plenty of color but no perspective.

  34. Gunpowder placed inside its waist improves a mild Havana, Its unexpected flash Burns eyebrows and moustache.

  35. He shook his head, with a lifting of the eyebrows which seemed to suggest that he left such a mad accusation to be judged properly by her; and she flashed round on me.

  36. She shook her head, and looked at him with raised eyebrows of perplexity; truly I felt that she had learnt her lesson well.

  37. They were of that most rare eye-colour, a really dark violet, and the eyebrows on the very edge of the clearly defined frontal bone were slightly arched and well marked over the temples.

  38. She studied his face closely; its well marked eyebrows and strong serene mouth; a good face it was, she saw, the best of faces.

  39. He called up someone on the telephone, and smiling into it, working his rough eyebrows genially, he gave orders for someone named Briggs to get Miss Potter's last book for Mrs. Walbridge.

  40. His fair eyebrows were twisted into an odd frown and his mouth was set.

  41. Mr. Wishart raised his eyebrows at the peculiar words.

  42. It was an ugly sight, and when I caught a glimpse of Marker's face, 'pon my soul, those straight black eyebrows of his gave him a most devilish look.

  43. She had reddish-brown hair and--a rare conjunction--dark eyes and eyebrows and a delicate colour.

  44. Wratislaw pulled down his eyebrows and proceeded to defend a Scottish constituency against the libel of gullibility.

  45. Peter swung round in his revolving chair, and raised his eyebrows in mild surprise.

  46. Mr. Barcroft raised his eyebrows enquiringly, but his son made no further audible comment.

  47. He seemed even more angry than surprised, however; and his black eyebrows bent together fiercely.

  48. I hope so," said Saracinesca, bending his bushy gray eyebrows and fixing his keen old eyes upon his visitor.

  49. Faustina raised her eyebrows a little and looked at Corona as though to say that her sister was hopeless, and for some minutes no one spoke.

  50. The brow was heavy and the gray eyebrows irregular and bushy, but his gray eyes were singularly clear and bright, betraying a hidden vitality which would not have been suspected from the whole impression he made.

  51. Corona raised her eyebrows slightly as though surprised, but his expression of genuine contrition softened her heart a little and rendered her answer perhaps a trifle less unkind than she had meant it to be.

  52. She was small and slightly made, had an Oriental expression of countenance, and the piercing eyes of a prophet, the gleams of which were increased in their power and beauty by her long dark eyebrows and eyelashes.

  53. He stroked the insensible with his hands upon the eyebrows and down the spine; traced figures upon their breast and abdomen with his long white wand, and they were restored to consciousness.

  54. The biggest rogue respects an honest man, that is why we, who are always trying to disguise our emotions, admire Mr. Triggs, who would just as soon wear a red beard and false eyebrows as seek to convey a false impression.

  55. Mr. Ragbone was a man whose eyebrows seemed to rise higher with each year, and whose manner of patient suffering became more pathetically unreal with the passage of each season.

  56. There was a tilt about her chin that showed determination, and that about her eyebrows which suggested something more than good judgment.

  57. Daddy," she addressed herself to a small clean-shaven man, with beetling eyebrows and a broad, intellectual head.

  58. To give softness, the ridges of the eyebrows are rounded.

  59. Among the ancients, a small forehead and joined eyebrows were much admired in a female countenance; and in Persia, large joined eyebrows are still highly esteemed.

  60. Ovid assures us that the women of his time painted their eyebrows in such a manner, that they might appear to form only one.

  61. From the eyebrows to the bottom of the nose, three parts.

  62. If the eyelashes be not long and silky, and if the eyebrows be not furnished with fine hairs, and be not arched and distinctly separated.

  63. Elevation of the eyebrows with a slight throwing backward of the head is the gesture of assent.

  64. Arlen's eyebrows raised with the memory, then settled.

  65. Jacky's face was firm and concentrated, her eyebrows raised slightly.

  66. Then the Malay advanced a pace, and elevating his eyebrows very high and opening his eyes until they were of huge size, he nodded his head at Muzio .

  67. He smiled in a constrained way, thanked me, and putting his face close to my face, he elevated his eyebrows and parted his lips a little, as though something had struck him.

  68. There was an uplifting of the eyebrows on the part of the Duke, as the trick which had disarmed many an opponent was skilfully met, a tightening of the lips by Sir Edward as a similar attempt of his own was as easily frustrated.

  69. I feared that his eyebrows would altogether disappear into his bushy hair.

  70. Dunno--old fellow with eyebrows like a hair brush--and a long linen duster.

  71. Dayton was talking to the old man with bushy eyebrows and a linen duster.


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