Sentence examples for face lightly from inspiring English sources

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Another garish combatant enters the fray with "his face lightly powdered, his teeth blackened" — for beauty, it should be added.

He lay, his face lightly powdered, his cheeks rouged, his pale hands crossed over the handle of his Knights of Columbus sword.

His face lightly and darkly bearded, bears a hint of melancholy informed by sacrifice and the unavoidable realities of his sport.

During the trips, he would slouch down in his baggy jeans and untucked shirt, a Yankees cap pulled over a face lightly scarred with acne.

She'll commandeer the epic digital billboards and her face lightly freckled and without makeup, as is her way these days – will flash all over American Eagle Outfitters.

Blond hair piled on top of her head, her legs and face lightly brushed with glitter, she then enters magically through the back wall and slithers over the back of the sofa and onto Ben's lap.

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As the curtain goes up, we see the performers lying on their sides, reading magazines, their faces lightly dusted with powder, like the bored inhabitants of a beach somewhere in Hell.

The Bolshoi's version features, among other horrors, white children dressed as blacks (black-wrinkled tights, black-gloved sleeves and black curly wigs, but with faces lightly daubed in various pale coffee hues).

Following the Boston College victory, the Hokies faced lightly regarded and winless.

"I felt I wanted more, as far as the artistic and ritual sides of body modification goes," he says, adding that he doesn't take the role of scarring people's faces lightly: "It's more pressure this part of the body being the most visible but it's an amazing honor to be asked to do it".

The right side of his face is lightly peppered with black shrapnel marks but seeing him now on the family farm, it is hard to imagine that in the summer of 2004 he was so badly injured that doctors gave him only a 5% chance of survival.

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