Sentence examples for crossed arms from inspiring English sources

Clenched fists, crossed arms — military.

Dancers, in pairs, clasp hands over crossed arms and stretch backward and whirl.

Candles flicker in a valley of the dead as bodies lie with crossed arms.

Might that explain Sally Field's stoic yet haggard pose, her crossed arms and her rictus fortitude?

Whatever it means, with crossed arms and a wink, she cuts a sassy figure.

Gainsborough may well have remembered Salvator Rosa's "hermit" when he painted the shepherd leaning over a rock with crossed arms.

Supt Robyn Williams certainly doesn't want to see stony faces and crossed arms, but says dancing is discretionary.

Her crossed arms seemed to indicate not just authority but also a sort of discomfort with it.

Her legs crossed, arms neatly folded over an exotic bosom, leaning forward, she seems quite comfortable under scrutiny.

The precise folding of a man's crossed arms has the same weight as a full-stretched arabesque or a forward fall to the floor.

In lieu of the usual flash of cathartic violence, we get plenty of awkward stares and crossed arms, building to an intentionally maladroit skirmish.