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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a face built for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe someone whose appearance is particularly suited for a specific purpose, such as modeling or acting.
Example: "She has a face built for the silver screen, captivating audiences with her beauty and charm."
Alternatives: "a face made for" or "a face suited for".
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With her broad cheeks and wide, rolling eyes, Ms. Nielsen has a face built for clowning.
It's a face built for extremes, though early on she could also make it work for somewhat smaller, human-scaled roles that were nonetheless tricky for her.
Carell has a face built for comedy, its Sears-catalogue handsomeness hilarified by a butter pat of hair, an L-wrench nose, and deep-socketed, woe-is-me green eyes.
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The Jets see themselves as an opponent few teams want to face, a team built for cold-weather playoff football.
A road-facing stone wall, built for a Westchester client, has embedded at its center a huge boulder that looks like an invader from glacial prehistory; another wall has a fallen tree trunk laid horizontally within the stones, guaranteeing, at some point, the wall's collapse.
It's a coming-of-age melodrama about young love in the postapocalyptic future, centring on a young woman called Alita with "the face of an angel and a body built for battle", and involving plenty of human-slash-cyborg martial arts.
NameTag, an app built for Google Glass by a company called FacialNetwork.com, offers a face scanner for encounters with strangers.
On the opposite side we have the black woman – whose face, build and hair is open for popular criticism.
But if retailers really want to turn store traffic around – and let's face it, stores are built for a higher level of traffic than they're getting, so they need it to turn around – they're going to have to dig deeper, and focus more on activities that move beyond just selling stuff.
Bridge after bridge along the Seine filled with somber onlookers, all facing the cathedral built for the ages.
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