Sentence examples for forbidding look from inspiring English sources

From the outside, the habitat had a ghostly, forbidding look.

A woman inside gives her a forbidding look and shakes her head.

MAROONED in pirate-infested waters off the Horn of Africa but tied to unruly Yemen 400km (250 miles) away, the archipelago of Socotra has a forbidding look.

From a commuter train or speeding car, the Passaic has a forlorn, even forbidding look: brown, torpid, full of floating objects, and rimmed by deserted factories and warehouses.

Mansions that arose within it had a fenced, forbidding look, as in pictures of early Fifth Avenue; the clustering of poor immigrants seemed to create crowded streets and slums not terribly different from those in Paris or Chicago.

Or are men just less likely to fuss and, God forbid, look feeble?

The coves and cliffs that had looked forbidding now look beautiful rather than frightening.

The building, which opened in 1874 housing about 820 people, would have been a "forbidding looking" place.

This isn't the cheapest wine book on the shelves, and its paucity of illustrations gives it a rather forbidding, academic look.

It sits atop these forbidding ramparts looking east over miles of Andalusian countryside and, to the west, some 10 miles to the Atlantic coastline.

The "real forensics" in the book are about these characters and Sarath's brother, and about an artist who paints eyes on statues of Buddha but is forbidden to look at the face of the deity.