Sentence examples for aghast expression from inspiring English sources
The expression "aghast expression" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone's facial expression when they are reacting to something that has surprised or shocked them in a strong way. For example: When I told her the news, she had an aghast expression on her face.
As the months have passed, and the two sides have grown ever closer in the polls, his ruddy features have acquired the same aghast expression, drum-tight with horror and regret, that moviegoers will remember seeing on the face of Hugh Grant, in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," on the morning of his marriage to a girl he didn't love.
A sauce so glistening you can see your own face in it, aghast expression and all.
Beginning very early in our childhood, we all experience some form of shaming, like when parents give us that aghast expression and shout "never do that again" or shake their heads with "I expected better from you".
Even more aghast will be the expressions of the Corbyn nominators.
Telling the truth about how broken I felt was, I soon saw, a mistake; her expression grew increasingly aghast and panic gathered in her eyes.
The girl evidently hadn't expected to be spoken to by unknown people in an unknown car, and the most dramatic expressions passed over her face — she looked aghast, terrified, surprised, and then began to giggle.
She is wearing an expression we have never seen on her before: elated, aghast and altogether undone.
He returned, empty-handed and aghast, reporting that "there are literally no avocados in the village", his stricken expression neatly encapsulating how mightily things have changed in the E9 postcode and how much hipster boys (and girls) crush on Khan.
But by the expressions of the overexposed audience -- some clutching Jim Beam bottles, all making bemused, aghast faces -- caught by photographer Andrew Hetherington on assignment for GQ, it was a safe hunch that the impromptu show astounded even its subject.
