Sentence examples for a downcast expression from inspiring English sources

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"I've been here over an hour and a half," says an elderly woman with a downcast expression near the front of the queue.

The obsession with smooth, youthful, unspoiled flesh has its inevitable offshoot in pictures of children, like William Stott's "Wild Flower," of a naked girl with a downcast expression on a white fur carpet, a few fallen rose petals beside her, intimating innocence lost.

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She can respond to a harmony in the piano with a downcast look.

"Chin up," he instructed his attorney in his final moments, telling her that he didn't want to gaze out and see her downcast expression.

The eponymous hat frames the young woman's face with its downcast expression, but equally important is her hand and arm drawn sketchily to look as if she is waving vigorously at someone outside the drawing.

Concern in Middle England has been mounting in recent days over the threat to the nation's youth posed by emo, a not-so-new fangled musical fashion that has spawned a loyal and growing tribe of followers, one instantly recognisable to even the most casual of observers for its shared attachment to skinny jeans, long black fringes and apparently permanently downcast expressions.

There, he replaced a smiling North Korean soldier's face with a downcast version of his own and the soldier's weapon with a bottle of whiskey.

Look at him earlier this week, a downcast shadow at his own manifesto launch.

On Thursday a downcast mood appeared across the board.

"Paralyzed with Panic Brigade," reads a sign carried by a woman with a downcast mien.

Jeremy Corbyn has plucked at a downcast party's heartstrings.

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