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Example sentences for "leering"

Lexicographically close words:
leel; leen; leer; leere; leered; leers; leery; lees; leese; leest
  1. He was bare-headed; the light from one of my tubes fell upon his grinning, leering gray face.

  2. The giant Martian had gathered her into his huge arms, his heavy jowled gray face, with a leering grin, close to hers!

  3. I shot one diagonally up at the turret where Johnson was leering down at our rear window, but he saw my gesture and dropped back out of sight.

  4. She thought of Ludlow, with his lofty ideals and his great gifts, and then she looked at this little grinning, leering wretch, and remembered how he had once put his arm round her and kissed her.

  5. For when she had got him to be so very wicked she might have spared him some of the nastiness, and not said those awful leering things so loud.

  6. He shook them roughly, leering into their bloodshot eyes.

  7. I snatched the heavy candelabra and with a howl of rage I hurled it with all my force at his narrow leering eyes.

  8. Evil beamed from his narrow, leering eyes; and when he smiled at Boudru it twirled his demon-like mouth into a grotesque shape.

  9. He shook his head and groaned, then focused his gaze upon the leering face of Herr Naggel.

  10. Stan sent his Spitfire into a screaming reversement, tipped out of it with his guns hammering as he laid his sights on a leering swastika.

  11. Now no intelligent man believes in the existence of a devil--no longer fears the leering fiend.

  12. It has tried to protect the people from the malice of the Devil--from ghosts and spooks, from witches and wizards and all the leering fiends that seek to poison the souls of men.

  13. To fill the minds of children with leering fiends--with mocking devils--is one of the meanest and basest of crimes.

  14. Intelligence reaves the heavens of winged and frightful monsters--drives ghosts and leering fiends from the darkness, and floods with light the dungeons of fear.

  15. A tall, well-formed, and comely waitress is bringing in the dinner of a wicked old reprobate, who is leering his admiration of her personal attractions.

  16. He was leaning in at the open window, leering at the young couple, his eyes puckered, an evil expression on his face.

  17. He seized it, swung it, and slashed its contents at the leering face in the window.

  18. I thought I could maybe keep an eye on the Killer gin I stayed here," David answered, leering at Red Wull.

  19. Then turning on his son, and leering at him: "What is it, ye ask?

  20. And often the dream of the leering face and the clutching hand would follow her by day.

  21. For up from the earth rose the ugly, leering face, and out of the grass came the horrid, clutching hand!

  22. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!

  23. Seraphine described to us with ghastly vividness the appearance of this evil entity which she is able to see, through her clairvoyant vision, with its hideous leering countenance, inside the lady.

  24. I have stirred up ghosts of the past--leering ghosts, and I hate them.

  25. I saw the evil entity, leering hideously, go out of Penelope in a glow of scarlet light.

  26. Then he laughed uncannily, leering upon me over his spectacles.

  27. Thence onward my gaze fluttered like a butterfly, and rested upon a leering corbel, which seemed to scoff at priest and priest-craft with protruding tongue.

  28. A lantern set on the floor made rude shadows, and out of them crept this woman, leering at Trevors, peering at Judith, licking her thin lips, and chuckling to herself.

  29. As soon as he saw that Marie-Anne had breathed her last, he pushed against the door, and thrust his leering face into the room.

  30. His wife and Camille were seated at a table before a large punch-bowl, in the company of two ragged, leering scoundrels, and a soldier of youthful appearance.

  31. Not until you have settled the terms of peace," he answered with that leering smile.

  32. The Plain, gloomy and implacable, was illuminated on its anonymous horizon by one rift of naked, leering light.

  33. Finally she saw a furtive and leering face thrust slowly and cautiously around the angle of stone.

  34. He reeled across the village, he staggered along the shore, And between the leering tikis crept groping through his door.

  35. He grinned meanly at Tom Van Dorn who, glancing up over his shoulder from his book, saw the white face of Fenn leering at him.

  36. Five minutes later, as Tom Van Dorn wheeled out of Market Street, he also saw Henry Fenn, standing in the middle of the crossing leering at him and laughing a drunken, foolish, noisy laugh.

  37. In the half open door stood the nondescript bartender leering in at them.

  38. He leaned forward, his eyes leering evilly into the Doctor's.

  39. She had hardly closed her lids before the image of a leering face with terrible bloody eyes flamed out of memory and set her trembling and shuddering.

  40. McClingan looked at him with that leering superior smile of his, and gave him just the slightest possible nod of his head.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    banter; bantering; derisive; flippancy; flippant; fooling; grinning; hissing; jeering; joshing; kidding; leering; levity; mockery; mocking; panning; quizzical; railing; raillery; ridiculing; roasting; scoffing; smart; smirking; sneering; taunting; teasing; twitting