Sentence examples for poker faced from inspiring English sources

The phrase "poker faced" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to describe someone who is impassive or unreadable in their expression. For example: She kept a poker face while her opponent was making his argument.

Idiom

Poker face.

Someone with a poker face doesn't show any emotion or reaction so that people don't know what they are feeling.

Dictionary

poker faced

adjective

Alternative spelling of poker-faced

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"I used to sleep with them," he said, poker faced.

It's not easy to be poker faced when people are cheering around you.

"I still don't know if that's the case," he said, poker faced.

Petter is upbeat, if poker faced, when asked about bids for other potential rights.

He tries to sit there poker faced, knowing that the camera is on him.

He just said: 'Thank you, keep me posted.' I mean he was quite poker faced, really".

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He said, poker-faced, "Oh, no thank you.

A lighthearted biography of the transcendent poker-faced clown; it reveals the origin of the hat.

Tannenbaum remained typically poker-faced.

Poker-faced is about it.

For a while, Sewell watches, poker-faced.

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