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Example sentences for "moustache"

Lexicographically close words:
mousing; mousmes; mousquetaire; mousse; mousseline; moustached; moustaches; moustachioed; moustachios; mout
  1. He had evidently chewed tobacco before he assumed the ermine, and his reddish-coloured moustache still showed the stains.

  2. His blue uniform concealed a burly figure, and his moustache revealed the fact that his errand down the street had had to do with beer.

  3. Hal strolled up to the person who was doing the weighing, a middle-aged man with a yellow moustache stained with tobacco-juice.

  4. The beauty of the features was set off by the absence of moustache and beard, a fashion then making its way in Italy, but still uncommon elsewhere.

  5. During his illness a slight beard and a fairly thick moustache had grown.

  6. Even his minute and recent moustache looked as if each hair had its particular nurse, and his pink and chubby face defied conscientious dissipation.

  7. He buttoned up his coat, braced himself against it, and gave his moustache a frantic twist.

  8. A diminutive and slightly retrousse nose, gentle grey eyes of the drowning-fly description, and a sensitive mouth scarcely hidden by a fair moustache of downward tendency.

  9. He was a very large young man, with a fair moustache which looked almost flaxen against the deep tan of his face.

  10. His smart military moustache was small and evidently trimmed, his face was sunburnt, and in his eyes there gleamed the restlessness of India.

  11. There was something wolf-like in his face, with the fierce blue eyes shining from beneath dark lashes, the fair moustache pushed forward by set lips.

  12. He slipped from the saddle with a litheness which contrasted strangely with his closely cropped grey hair and white moustache and Imperial.

  13. Shah to me in lame French, as he stroked his moustache in a nervous manner.

  14. His thick black eyebrows and huge moustache were in great contrast to the Shah's pallid face.

  15. In the middle of the night the cold was bitter, so cold that I had icicles hanging on my moustache and eyelashes.

  16. He wears a high cap with three aigrettes, and his moustache and beard are of abnormal length.

  17. He was a small rotund man with a gigantic moustache laid without a brown hair misplaced over a mouth kindly and petulant.

  18. The moustache across his upper lip was faded and brittle.

  19. Nevitt stroked his moustache with a reflective air.

  20. His white moustache had more dignity than ever.

  21. He was a sharp-looking gentleman, with a queer look about the eyes, and a dark moustache curled round at the corners.

  22. His forehead was high; his lips were thin; his nose inclined toward the Roman pattern; his black moustache was carefully curled and twisted at the extremities.

  23. He was a big man; his features and even his ample moustache gave a disconcerting impression of rugged integrity, and I remember him chiefly in an alpaca or seersucker coat.

  24. Several years before Mr. Lammerton had arrived among us with a Beaux Arts moustache and letters of introduction to Mrs. Durrett and others.

  25. I had never beheld the handsome and fascinating Mr. Jennings, but I visualised him now; dark, like all villains, with a black moustache and snapping black eyes.

  26. He smiled, but his gesture as he stroked his moustache implied a slight annoyance at her composure.

  27. The figure was rather that of a man than a lad -- tall, strongly knit, full of grace and power; and a faint yellow moustache upon the upper lip showed the dawn of manhood in the youth.

  28. The features were swart and the upper lip darkened with the more than incipient moustache of the southern brunette.

  29. The sergeant stroked his well-kept moustache to hide the smile that insisted, however, on escaping through his eyes.

  30. It was easy to recognize Henrik in the young fellow who would have loved so much to smile, only that cursed waxed moustache would not allow his mouth to open very far.

  31. At that time my moustache and beard were already sprouting, but I have never regretted my determination.

  32. After him stepped out a brisk old man whose moustache and eyebrows I remembered of old.

  33. He twirled his moustache slightly and continued to look at Marianne sideways without replying.

  34. Old Ramel twirled his moustache with his long, lean fingers as he spoke these last words into which he infused a dash of irony.

  35. He had ever obtrusively before him, as if haunted by the spectre of the Poor Man before Don Juan, the lean face of Garnier and the white moustache of Ramel.

  36. Then a pleasant smile shoots from the moustache through a pair of the deepest furrows up to the blue eyes, where it stays and blinks and twinkles joyously.

  37. As he strode on before us, the storm, which was furious in the court, dishevelled his thin, dark hair, and the ends of his long moustache fluttered like pennons in the wind.

  38. And now my heart beat with indignation whenever, raising my eyes, I saw Arthur in the garden stroking the little moustache that began to darken his lip, or heard his clear voice.

  39. A thin moustache of straggling hairs served rather to exaggerate than to conceal the vicious expression of a hare-lipped mouth.

  40. The driver was a sturdy, thick-set man whose remarkable personal appearance was fixed instantly and ineradicably in the mind of the beholder by an enormous moustache whose shape, size and color suggested a crow with outstretched wings.

  41. Whenever his feelings were particularly bland and expansive, he had a way of taking the ends of his enormous moustache and twirling them between his spatulate thumbs and fingers.

  42. Eric justice; the face is too white and pink, and the moustache isn't at all the right shade.

  43. I know I could catch the exact tone of Eric's moustache if I were a painter.

  44. The lackadaisical gentleman with the moustache turned out to be her husband.

  45. He removed the pipe, brushed his long moustache with the back of a bony hand, and bowed slowly and with grave ceremony to the arrival.

  46. But if you forget it, I'll be forced to treat you as you deserve," and turning on his heel, he left Marchmont chewing the ends of his sandy moustache with a grim avidity that boded ill for the peace of the Bishop and his household.

  47. His brow had flushed; his moustache had begun to twitch.

  48. Brown was the centre of the group, pale, heavy-eyed, with his upturned, spiky moustache and listless manner.

  49. The last of all, a young Baggara with a black moustache and pointed beard, looked up as he passed and shook his sword in impotent passion at the Egyptian riflemen.

  50. A very small Englishman, with a straw-coloured moustache and a weary manner, was riding at the head of them.

  51. A large man with a drooping black moustache and a pair of binoculars in his hand was riding at the side of them.

  52. Mentally he removed the cocky little moustache so prevalent in the Army, and with equal arrogance tried to put one on the smooth-faced chauffeur.

  53. His sprouting moustache and beard are a token of patriotic zeal, and a sacrifice upon the altar of national idiosyncrasy.

  54. I do not care for the manly beauty of a moustache and beard.

  55. Do you know that with a week's growth of beard and moustache a man looks like a gorilla?

  56. That's part of the business, just as much as the moustache and the green coat.

  57. But only on account of the moustache he had grown at the University, and which-- [She checks herself.

  58. He was a wiry dark youth, with a little black moustache and a brisk manner of speech.

  59. The face was stout and burned by the sun to the colour of a ripe apple, and in spite of a black heavy moustache had a merry and good-humoured look.

  60. He pulled at his grey moustache thoughtfully, and asked: "Have the sons the Road in common, too?

  61. I might serve for twenty years, and at the end of it the youngest subaltern out of Sandhurst, with a moustache he can't feel upon his lip, would in case of war step over my head and command me.

  62. He was a bald, sad-looking man with a long grizzling moustache that drooped despondently.

  63. Colonel Winwood tugged at his drooping moustache and again scrutinized the frank and exceedingly attractive youth.

  64. So he sat down and Miss Winwood quietly told him all she knew about Paul and what had happened during the past few weeks, while the Colonel sat by his desk and tugged his long moustache and here and there supplemented her narrative.

  65. Wilson pulled his scrubby moustache and made no retort to Paul's anathema.

  66. I am short-sighted, but I caught an impression of two elderly gentlemen, one of whom, wearing a white moustache and a tall hat, was responding warmly to the fulminations of Sir Thomas.

  67. Muirhead's fair moustache and large blue eyes counted for little there.

  68. His face seemed to have grown thinner, and his moustache twitched with the snarling movement of a brute at bay.


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