Sentence examples for on long faces from inspiring English sources

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Long face.

Someone with a long face is sad or depressed about something.

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Then, when the list of deserters grows, they put on long faces, and say, 'it must be those wicked officers.' The officers would stop this plan in a day if they were allowed".

On long faces, a softer, lengthy fringe is typically most flattering.

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And they feel liberated from buying burkas, a trend that is prompting a lot of long faces on what can be called Burka Row.

So there are sure to be plenty of long faces on employees across the financial sector who have come to expect a bonus on top of their base pay.

The snow stood a bit shorter than before Friday's rain, which went on long enough to smooth the faces of the glaciers rising from the gutters, and Sunday's 37-degree high, which was warm enough to accelerate the melting.

No less incisively observed are two watercolor studies in gray of Mr. Hockney's friend Gregory Evans, who sits loosely on a stool, hair touseled, mouth turned down, a dour expression on his long face as he endures the ordeal of posing.

Everyone listens and puts on a long face to show that they, too, are gravely concerned.

My mother was on one of her perennial diets, and she had no gray in her black hair and no wrinkles on her long face.

An upcoming free agent this year, he is emotional and realistic in equal parts, and beneath the beard and clenched concentration on his long face you could see the excitement struggling to break free as the outs and innings rolled by.

Flat eyebrows with a low arch look best on a long face.

The puzzle is to assemble the cubes into a 1 × 1 × 4 prism such that all four colours appear on each of the four long faces of the prism.

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