Sentence examples for pursed mouth from inspiring English sources
The phrase "pursed mouth" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a facial expression where the lips are tightly pressed together, often indicating disapproval or concentration. Example: "She looked at him with a pursed mouth, clearly unimpressed by his excuse."
Michael is fifty-three, slight and taciturn, with clipped gray hair, flushed cheeks, and his mother's pursed mouth.
Its individual features – the sightless eyes, the shapely nose, the slightly pursed mouth, the neat ears – are finely executed.
At one moment they are spookily imitating their elders – the pursed mouth of the bass guitarist, the rolled shoulders of the backing group.
The fussy way she had of shifting her buttocks on the kitchen chair, her pursed mouth, a slightly contrived air of menace — that was what was left of the more or less innocent vulgarity of a small-town flirt.
"Then he turned on a slim hose and let it hover over each bone," he writes alluringly, "air nestling into the evidence of the trauma as if he were blowing cool breath from a pursed mouth onto a child's burn".
The fussy way she had of shifting her buttocks on the kitchen chair, her pursed mouth, a slightly contrived air of menace that was what was left of the more or less innocent vulgarity of a small-town flirt.
Their domed, glazed rotundity, heavy and overhung brows, pursed mouths and overlarge, heavily glazed clay forms make them deeply problematic.
Miss Lewis pursed her mouth.
The lips are pursed, the mouth downturned.
He pursed his mouth, controlling a tremor, then talked on, with an air of trying to see all sides, trying to understand.
The baby nestles, pursing his mouth around the pacifier.
