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Example sentences for "unsmiling"

Lexicographically close words:
unsleeping; unsling; unslinging; unslumbering; unslung; unsmirched; unsmoked; unsnapped; unsnuffed; unsociability
  1. Wilfred, with an unsmiling and brazen gravity that brought to the girl's eyes and lips a half-mocking and wholly decorative twinkle of amusement.

  2. Early that morning, men began to assemble along the streets of Hixon; and to congregate into sullen clumps with set faces that denoted a grim, unsmiling determination.

  3. The church is ugly enough to have had a Puritan for architect; and there, just beyond the crowded graves, stands the parsonage, as unsmiling as the church.

  4. I saw his unsmiling face soften and his eye grow kind as mine lighted up with approbation of his handiwork.

  5. Well, that iss good," commented the grave and unsmiling one.

  6. It was at this point on the road to recovery, just halfway between illness and health, that Norah and Max brought the great and unsmiling Von Gerhard on the scene.

  7. His face was unsmiling but his blue eyes were alight.

  8. It wasn’t his fault,” Ann spoke bravely into the unsmiling face.

  9. She gave it in the fullest detail, interrupting herself here and there for soft cachinnations, unmindful of the stern, unsmiling silence with which her daughter listened.

  10. But towards morning he fell into a heavy sleep from which presently he awoke to find it broad daylight and Deede Dawson standing on the threshold of the shed with his perpetually smiling lips and his cold, unsmiling eyes.

  11. There was that about this little fat, smiling man and his unsmiling eyes which proclaimed very plainly that he was quite ready to put his threat into execution.

  12. But he realized he had small hope of taking unawares this fat little smiling man with the unsmiling eyes and steady hand, and he was well convinced that the first doubtful movement he made would bring a bullet crashing through his brain.

  13. His chin was lowered and he was looking at her through narrowed, unsmiling eyes.

  14. The lovely lady continued to stare at the soft turf with unsmiling eyes, and the clergyman could only watch her in puzzled silence.

  15. The bronzed doors opened again and a single large tray was borne in by the dark-skinned, unsmiling servants.

  16. She had the rare and unwomanlike art of witty description, though it assorted badly with her tragic face and unsmiling eyes.

  17. As the girl looked up and the level unsmiling gaze met hers, the older woman started back.

  18. She had smiled, in her unsmiling way, upon his efforts to do what she had told him to do, to cut away the cancer that was in him and to cut away all that was round it.

  19. We tremble at his aspect grave with fate, At his inscrutable, unsmiling eyes, Subtle with hope and full of prophecies.

  20. Except that she spoke unsmiling and ignored Bibi-Ri, except for her deathly pallor, she seemed without the least consciousness of a terrible irony.

  21. Also they can look as unsmiling and bored as anybody anywhere.

  22. Their noses went up in the air, and they looked about them with a challenging, unsmiling superiority, as though to dare any one of us to laugh.

  23. Even in those days you veiled your witchery and mischief-loving nature behind that serious face with its curved but unsmiling mouth.

  24. In truth, to speak of your glorious hair, the whiteness of your brow and throat, the brilliant softness of your eyes, or the sweetness yet strength of your tender though unsmiling lips is to make but a travesty of description.

  25. The ten years had been happy, for the husband and wife loved each other and were equally devoted to their beautiful, unsmiling baby.

  26. There are some as would like to make me leave," said Bessie Clapp, her dark unsmiling gaze on the fair tranquillity of the younger, happier face.

  27. Bonnell met the unsmiling gaze of his host as Mr. Evringham rose, and then caught sight of Mrs. Evringham stonily gazing from her chair.

  28. Hagane responded to the first two greetings with unsmiling courtesy, offering a perfunctory extension of his thick hand.


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