Sentence examples for awful face from inspiring English sources

The phrase "awful face" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's face in a negative or unappealing manner, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "Despite his charming personality, many found his awful face hard to overlook."
Alternatives: "ugly visage" or "unpleasant appearance".

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Some people turn to cocaine, some people turn to psychiatrists, to speed, to religion, to killing... " There is an enormous ring on his finger, a huge lump of silver hewn into some kind of awful face with its mouth open.

He called her "the awful face of treason" and a "survivor of nothing".

He deserved to make that awful, awful face when he won.

But we are bored of our faces, our glorious faces, we are offering them up to the Silicon Valley gods and saying: swap this awful face with another one.

If this was global warming, and Wexford thought it must be, it disguised its awful face under a mask of mild innocence". Unfortunately, Rendell structures "Not in the Flesh" around a couple of Hollywood-sized coincidences and other unlikely plot devices.

Yes, I could race ahead and worry about any number of things: that the workman would be so mad that he wouldn't show up tomorrow or even that he'd quit, that my husband would be upset that I also kind of made the same awful face at him.

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And all her sentences turned their blank, awful faces to her in blame.

Look how amazingly awful that face is.

Our city and state, no doubt thought of as having deep pockets (debatable in these awful times), face lawsuits in the case.

The shifting textures of wall-mould are "a cackling witch; an awful, leprous face".

Like Iraqis in the early days of their war, many Pakistanis insist that foreigners carry out the most devastating bombings, and turn to conspiracy theories to explain a reality that is otherwise too awful to face.

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