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Example sentences for "like face"

  • The old woman looked inquiringly into the flower-like face so close to her own.

  • A moment later Jenny appeared, arrayed in her blue silk party gown, her glinting gold-brown hair done up higher than ever before, and her flower-like face aglow.

  • The brightness faded from Jenny's flower-like face.

  • The mental picture thus evoked brought a gleam of cruel satisfaction and of satiated lust into the keen, ferret-like face, and a smile of intense joy lit up the narrow, pale-coloured eyes.

  • The young girl gave a slight shudder and her child-like face became a shade paler than before.

  • We named her Celeste; for there was something truly celestial in her sweet, angel-like face, and loving nature; and never did parents love any only child as we did her.

  • Geoffrey, I knelt by his side; I spoke to him as tenderly as I could to one of my own children; and then he turned a white corpse-like face upon me, and spoke words which God grant I may some day forget.

  • Lord St. Maurice turned and looked into the white, corpse-like face of the Sicilian.

  • He was sitting upright in bed, leaning a little forward toward her, and the sunbeam which had stolen in through the parted curtains fell upon his white corpse-like face.

  • Doatie, leaning back in her chair in turn, and tilting backward her little flower-like face, that looks as if even the most harmless falsehood must be unknown to it.

  • Perhaps, could she only know how charmingly becoming this style of headdress is to her flower-like face, she would not have blushed at all.

  • Perhaps he understands instinctively that such knowledge will but widen the breach that already exists between him and the girl who now walks beside him with a happy smile upon her flower-like face.

  • The color came and went on Daisy's pretty flower-like face, and her heart throbbed pitifully.

  • A short, alert man with a hawk-like face and a distinct military bearing, strode into the room and bowed before Urim.

  • His hawk-like face set in stern lines, Vulcar faced them.

  • And the king was never weary day or night of contemplating the moon-like face of the pregnant queen.

  • And her tear-drops, black with collyrium, fall frequently, looking like bees attracted by the fragrance of her lotus-like face.

  • And the wild glitter of her eye and her marble-like face told a far different story, and her efforts to be at ease were so evident and so painful, that all felt it a relief when the hour came for retiring and they could seek their own rooms.

  • His lips smiled, but the smile died beneath a neatly waxed moustache and reached no higher on the mask-like face.

  • And her anger and affright and grief, as she thus found herself face to face with the annihilation which chills every passion, could be read on her ingenuous, candid, lily-like face.

  • It was Janzen with the fair, Christ-like face.

  • Sobieska, for the time being no further interested in the proceedings, was openly watching the mask-like face.

  • Appreciating the girl's nobility, Carter strove to do justice to the Gray Man, but as he glanced into the mask-like face a greater repugnance than aforetimes overcame all generous impulses.

  • Kolinsky, with a sphynx-like face, sat gazing steadily at a point on the floor slightly beyond his extended feet.

  • As Barbara looked into that mask-like face, the eager expectant light in her brown eyes died out and a look of questioning doubt came.

  • Even the desert sun that so tanned, blistered and blackened the faces of his companions could not mark the gray pallor of that mask-like face.

  • As he spoke, the president of The King's Basin Land and Irrigation Company tried in vain to see behind the mask-like face of the man in the revolving chair.

  • He understood that it was business, but still--The farmer searched that cold, mask-like face for a ray of hope as a man might hold out his hands for pity to a machine.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like face" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and now; like amount; like another; like appearance; like case; like children; like creatures; like everything; like forms; like her; like him; like order; like other; like process; like projections; like the; like thee; like thine; like vnto; like your; likely enough; likened unto; public sentiment; rocky bottom; tail feathers; true servant