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Example sentences for "underlip"

Lexicographically close words:
underline; underlined; underling; underlings; underlining; underly; underlying; underman; undermanned; undermentioned
  1. His underlip dropped; he had the look of those who bate breath and swarm their wits to catch a sound.

  2. Miss Atwater's underlip resumed the position for which her mother had predicted that regal Spanish fixity, and her eyebrows and nose were all three perceptibly elevated.

  3. He thrust out his underlip and waved a hand at the scattered cubes.

  4. Now she took her underlip in her teeth; and her lashes fluttered as if to keep back tears.

  5. But when it was all over, Lance's underlip was bleeding at the corner where he had bitten into it.

  6. Nor was Aleck Douglas nearsighted; he saw the movement and his bearded underlip met his shaven underlip in a straight line.

  7. He could not help admiring that out-thrust underlip and those wide-set, deep and bitter brown eyes.

  8. I suppose you want my help," she said, and her underlip had a warning out-thrust.

  9. The upper lip of his enormous mouth dipped at the middle; the broad thick underlip hung down with its own weight.

  10. The finely cut underlip that rises from the strongly marked hollow over the chin ought to sharpen with a dash of contempt the conscious superiority that lies upon his broad, magnificent forehead.

  11. Struggling to keep his temper, Bel caught his underlip between his teeth, while Lucinda cast witlessly about her for some way of escape.

  12. For a moment Summerlad gnawed his underlip without attempting to reply.

  13. Tony lay with her face up, her underlip dropped; straight from head to feet.

  14. His great underlip drew in, what chin he had was thrust out with something like concern, and his eyes rolled away from Johnnie to the whimpering old man.

  15. As she straightened out the clothes and plumped the pillow, Big Tom stayed in front of the visitor, staring as hard as ever, his great underlip hanging down, and that big nose taking a sidewise dart every now and then.

  16. Barber's underlip was thrust out as he came back to her.

  17. Carolyn June was cooing endearing terms to the filly and playing with the quivering underlip when she heard a horse galloping swiftly up the lane and past the barn.

  18. Unconsciously she gripped into hard knots of flesh and bone, both hands, while she bit at her underlip until a red drop of blood started from the gash made in the tender skin by her teeth.

  19. His nose was large and veined, his cheeks pendulous and touched with rosacia; his hanging underlip revealed yellow teeth.

  20. You're thin; there are purple pockets under your eyes; your underlip is twisted with pain, and you limp.

  21. Yuki, catching her underlip between her teeth, and bruising her slim hands together for control, went nearer.

  22. Yuki caught her underlip between her teeth to steady its trembling.

  23. His protruding underlip trembled until he felt it shake, and raised a perfumed laden handkerchief for a screen.

  24. Standing on one foot she waited developments, and concealed her eagerness by snapping her underlip against her teeth with one busy forefinger.

  25. But she conquered it, her underlip in her teeth, and put a small hand in his outstretched one gravely.

  26. There was a silence; Sacharissa, uneasy, bit her underlip and sat looking at the uncanny machine.

  27. Lavinia's eyes filled with tears and her soft underlip trembled.

  28. The mere thought of Diana indifferent to him, or worse, another man's bride, made him bite on his underlip and tighten his hold on the rein.

  29. When they rejoined him, Radocky had evidently yielded some point; he stammered and worked his underlip on his moustache.

  30. You will oblige me,' was her answer; but she could not control a convulsion of her underlip that her defensive instinct told her was best hidden.

  31. There were several things that Cecil Chesney could be which made his wife shiver again and draw her underlip between her teeth.

  32. But with underlip thrust out and brows drawn down, his eyelids winking with every flash of lightning, he looked the storm firmly in the face, because "Muvvah" had begged him to be a man.

  33. So they looked at each other, talking, while Lyndall walked to the fuel-house with the key, her underlip bitten in.

  34. Hair like silken floss, small mouth, underlip very full and pink, upper lip pink but very thin and curled; there were four white spots on the nail of her right hand forefinger, and her eyebrows were very delicately curved.

  35. He stood reflecting with a scowl on his face and his underlip thrust forward.

  36. She observed Lady Clifford sitting with a submissive mien on the edge of a stiff François Premier chair, biting her underlip and pulling a small lace-edged handkerchief between her fingers.

  37. She snatched it rather brusquely from the other woman's hand and scanned it frowningly, her vivid red underlip caught between her teeth.

  38. I staggered a little but I bit down hard on my underlip to avoid crying out.

  39. Joey, his underlip of a measureless vacancy.

  40. How she talks,' he added, turning to Vicki and thrusting out his underlip with an expression that could only mean disgust.

  41. Whether his action had served as proof of his declared sincerity, or whether her brief reflection on his words had itself served him this good turn, he could not guess; but he saw now that her eyes had softened and that her underlip quivered.

  42. He drew her hands from before her face and revealed it, the underlip indrawn, the blue eyes swimming in hushed tears, all humbled in a wistful appeal.


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