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Example sentences for "pursed"

Lexicographically close words:
purred; purring; purrs; purs; purse; purser; pursers; purses; pursing; purslane
  1. I had finished he pursed his lips in a deliberate way and emitted a sort of sorrowful whistle.

  2. Still gazing at his hands, he pursed his lips a little, but this time made no hissing sound.

  3. He could not see that her lips pursed up as though to form certain low and tender words, and that her sapphirine eyes swept him before she controlled herself to go on.

  4. Billy Towler pursed his little red lips as he nodded his small head and winked one of his large blue eyes.

  5. Immediately thereafter Billy heard the regular though slight blows of the mallet, and pursed his red lips and screwed up his small visage into a complicated sign of intelligence.

  6. His tight lip pursed itself while he was engaged; it was not until he had put the peeled tomato on his plate, and added the heart of a lettuce to it, that he looked at his caller.

  7. Palethorpe, whose keenness had not grown less as he had grown older, elevated his eyebrows, and pursed his lips, when he glanced at the amounts to which Jeckie pointed.

  8. Ingeborg dear," her mother gently rebuked, for this was excess; and Judith looked still more what would have been a little pursed in any other woman.

  9. At this the young lady pursed her lips and shrugged her shoulders and assumed an air of waiting indifference.

  10. The old man puffed the heresy from his pursed lips.

  11. Eleanor noticed how Lizzie's lips pursed with contempt at the other children and the little stomach poked out with arrogance and fulness as the boasting waxed.

  12. He drummed on the desk with his finger-tips; he paced the office floor, he scowled, he pursed his lips, he dug his restless hands deep in his pockets.

  13. Sir Archibald invariably paced, and pursed his lips, and scowled, when a problem of more than ordinary interest engaged him.

  14. Sir Archibald lifted his eyebrows--then pursed his lips.

  15. Ferdinand's proud, pursed lips whisper his selfish arrogance, his iron will, and the greatness and fulfillment of his dreams.

  16. She hugged him closely, then lifted her chin and pursed her lips.

  17. Sir John consulted the doctor, who pursed up his lips and looked doubtful, but confessed that Tom himself had asked that the people should not be allowed to go until he had seen them and bidden them good-bye.

  18. Mr. Barkworth pursed up his mouth and frowned.

  19. The shores of the vast lake resound with sobs--'" He pursed his lips and rubbed his chin.

  20. Only Hsüeh Pao-ch'ai pursed up her lips and laughed.

  21. Chin Ch'uan pursed up her lips and gave him a smile.

  22. Kelly pursed his lips for a moment, but the next he smiled upon her, "All right.

  23. Mrs. Ingleton pursed her lips, "Oh, but there is simplicity and simplicity!

  24. She blew the smoke at him, delicately, through pursed lips.

  25. Like a young animal released from bondage she darted out of his sight, and Jeffcott returned to his hedge-trimming with pursed lips.

  26. Young Vernon Eversley, a friendly boy whom she had always liked, pursed his lips when he saw her programme.

  27. She then scolded Jane till I should have thought any ordinary child couldn't have gone on sitting up, but this one did, never saying a word, but pursed her mouth in till there was hardly a line to be seen.

  28. Zip pursed his lips and looked into St. George's eyes.

  29. Zip pursed his lips, and his brow furrowed under his red hair-a common expression for the leader of the Starman team.

  30. As he got deeper into the letter, he pursed his mouth, and the lines of his face deepened in a smile.

  31. He wondered whether some of his Eastern friends who pursed their lips when the Wrest was mentioned would have sneered or prayed.

  32. Mr. Tredway (largest railroad stockholder in Ripton) pursed his lips that were already pursed.

  33. The thin-lipped mouth rather pursed up, which made his smile the contradiction it was.

  34. She pursed her lips and looked at the floor in silence, and then she rose.

  35. The superintendent pursed his lips and shook his head.

  36. Simon pursed his lips and made a non-committal sound.

  37. He pursed his lips and considered his answer in silence before he spoke.

  38. At this question my uncle Jervas pursed his lips in a soundless whistle and smoothed snowy shirt-frill with caressing fingers.

  39. Here Anthony pursed his lips to a soundless whistle and began his soft tap-tapping again.

  40. She rose to receive it as if she were the accused, and more than one member of the jury, glancing at her, pursed virtuous lips.

  41. Freddy shrugged, pursed his lips and cocked an eyebrow at the Colonel.

  42. Freddy Farmer pursed his lips, and then let a little sigh slip between them.

  43. She pursed up her mouth complacently as she spoke, and Rob fell back a step to prevent his going a step closer.

  44. That is one of the mysteries which may never be revealed to me, except--" he pursed his lips and looked thoughtfully at the girl.

  45. Let me see," he pursed his lips as he applied his mind to the problem.

  46. The Chief Commissioner, with a heavy frown and pursed lips, sat stroking his moustache and looking under his shaggy eyebrows at the speaker.

  47. Brother Jackson shook his head, and pursed up his lips at the rumours.

  48. They were not pleasant musings, as any spectator would at once have pronounced who should have seen his posture, and his pursed mouth, and his eyebrows knitted anxiously under the bald yellow forehead.

  49. And surely her own good sense----" Algernon pursed up his mouth and raised his eyebrows.

  50. She was in her glory, and she gave yet a more energetic flap to the palm-leaf fan, as she pursed her lips together, and prepared to speak again.

  51. She pursed up her lips and nodded her head at me vigorously.

  52. Alice pursed up her lips, and turned her head away with a look of displeasure.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pursed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    compact; compressed; concentrated; condensed; consolidated; constricted; contracted; corrugated; cramped; crumpled; furrowed; knitted; knotted; nipped; pinched; puckered; pursed; rippled; rugged; rumpled; solidified; squeezed; strangled; strangulated; wrinkled