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Example sentences for "long face"

  • He may have inquired into my father's financial condition," suggested Alan, with a long face.

  • Then she seemed to notice her brother's long face, and she laughed out teasingly: "I 'll bet he and Dolly are no nearer together than ever.

  • You think so," grunted Bishop, pulling a long face.

  • No; we want, Julius, that you should come home every night with a long face on you till for the neighbors I'm ashamed.

  • Na, na, Becky; for why should I have a long face?

  • A long face you've had for so long I can't remember.

  • Just like his poor papa, he makes a long face if his supper is cold, but not once does he come up on time.

  • In this proposition, I gladly acquiesced; though Peter, who was a great sportsman, put on a long face.

  • Frequently I addressed her with a long face and an air of the profoundest and most distant respect--but in vain; she wouldn't even turn up her pretty olive nose.

  • To tell the truth, she felt really sorry to see him wearing such a long face, but she had not the heart to deceive him with fine speeches.

  • Comare Alfia saw that it was a favorable moment for her to approach, and drawing a long face, she began to eulogize the dead woman.

  • And the poor clumsy fellow set to work nibbling at it, all the time grumbling, with a long face.

  • Mubug-at íyang nawung ug sugúun, She gets a long face when I tell her to do s.

  • B346; c1] have a long face because of displeasure.

  • Nagsintimintal siya kay napildi sa madyung, He is wearing a long face because he lost in mahjong.

  • A man of forty, with a large, aquiline, knightly nose set in a long face, the Marquis was the last representative of one of the most ancient and illustrious families of France.

  • Presently he was saying with a long face: "I came here to denounce the cause of your unhappiness, and I begin to see it is myself.

  • Braider told him, with rather a long face, that his chances had been rather shaken by the affair, and that there was again some talk of pushing Culver against him.

  • In a few minutes Coote reappeared with a long face.

  • Dick handed the ominous paper back with a long face.

  • When I mentioned where I was living she rolled up her eyes and pulled a long face.

  • He pulled a long face at sight of Tony, but signed to the young man to be silent, and addressed himself earnestly to the Senator.

  • But there I was, and there was no use pulling a long face over it; and not being one to ask questions, I waited to see what would turn up.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being dissolved; eight millions; long chalk; long corridor; long course; long delay; long hair; long history; long lines; long narrow; long piece; long slender; long spell; long story; long stretch; long table; long tail; long trail; long visit; long vowel; longer afraid; longer doubted; longer knew; longer necessary; native copper; wondered what