Sentence examples for fixed expressions from inspiring English sources

Gestures go a long way toward compensating for the sculpted faces' fixed expressions.

He scorned a claim by George Osborne, the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer, that this year's budget "rewards work .This is a budget for millionaires not working families, cried Mr Miliband, urging ministers on the front bench opposite to raise their hands if they would benefit from the tax cut (cue fixed expressions and some squirming).

They're fixed expressions formed from two or three words linked together in different ways.

Chunks are groups of words that naturally go together – they are fixed expressions and they can't usually be changed.

First, the majority of them are fixed expressions or idioms, as shown in (25) and (26).

Copyright only applies to fixed expressions, not to the ideas that may make up a fixed expression.

Mr. Jones, with his smoothly shaved head and permanently fixed expression of amusement, has been an unmistakable dandy since the early '80s heyday of the Blitz nightclub.

However, in the model with completely fixed expression, speciation probabilities were lower than in others.

Although many S/T-correlated genes exhibited fixed expression during the breeding process (Table 6), little improvement was observed for this trait (Table 4).

Among his favorite props were stuffed dummies and effigy figures, but he was unsatisfied with their fixed facial expressions.

Photographers shot pictures of customers holding vine-ripened tomatoes or boxes of biscotti, their faces fixed in expressions of mourning.