Sentence examples for a pained look. from inspiring English sources

A pained look crosses his face.

A pained look appeared on his face.

"Your girlfriend?" Simpson gave me a pained look.

The term alone gave him a pained look.

He picks up phone and paces around office, a pained look in his eyes.

Folkish directness also drives Christina Courtin's "Fresh Kills," a pained look at a landfill.

Photos on the blog show a pained-looking, and clearly pregnant, Xiao sitting on a hospital bed after the injection but before the baby was stillborn 40 hours later.

"Republican Marty Ozinga and his companies gave 23 grand to Rod Blagojevich," it continues, showing a picture of a pained-looking governor.

Once allowed entry into Barneys, people wrote their own pathetic tales on whiteboards they held while posing for iPhone photos with a pained-looking Ansel, the deranged genius himself.

Heston's Ben-Hur traded gay-subtext barbs with rival Messala; This movie has a pained-looking, impassive Morgan Freeman as a Nubian sheik who looks out from under dreadlocks and says, "I had my 'All Romans must die' phase, just like you," as though recalling having owned a Sisters of Mercy CD in the 12th grade.

He glanced at one with a pained expression, then quickly looked away, as though he couldn't stand the sight.