Sentence examples for scowling from inspiring English sources

The word "scowling" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe the expression on someone's face when they are looking angry or annoyed. Example sentence: The teacher scowled at the students when they started talking during her lecture.

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scowling

noun

The act of giving a scowl.

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After failed attempts by the chador-clad woman to reel her in with her scowling face, the male officer intervenes to give it a shot, gesturing with a typical "come on now, let's go," but the red-streaked lady jolts back in a don't-touch-me kind of way.

There weren't too may other scowling faces to be seen in the hotel we stayed at, with most guests happy with their lot and unperturbed by the fact that their all-inclusive holiday meant they did not get the chance to sample other cuisines away from the hotel.

He's been the hapless chef, Aubrey, in Mike Leigh's 1990 Life Is Sweet, the last British hangman in 2005's Pierrepoint, and a scowling Winston Churchill in The King's Speech.

Justine has come across a little better, merely scowling from time to time as if she knows the whole process is demeaning but necessary.

Though I had first seen it bathed in Mancunian sunshine for Bob Ratcliffe's match in 1975, in my mind's eye, it will always be slightly glowing, its interior lights soft and dilute under scowling, rain-filled clouds – an Atkinson Grimshaw painting conjured into life.

And so it goes, until you're there, with the blinds down, scowling at anyone who comes to the door.

Outside it, like on any other Saturday, some Nation Of Islam adherents – sombrely scowling black men in formal suits and dickie bows – were using hip hop and loudhailers to broadcast their message of racial segregation.

He came to Sinje last month in a swirl of razzmatazz and with an entourage that included dozens of former fighters, scowling young thugs who looked as if they did not know what to do with their hands now they no longer carried guns.

The town's namesake, a scowling, gun-toting, high-school drop-out, is adored by his father.

And he drew New York City as per ushual very tall and thin and inky humans with bodies still like sticks scowling among the skycrapers but also collossal painted butterflys flutering by, hullo clouds, hullo sun, and giant flowers of many coluours sprowting out of desks.

He would do things his way, often scowling as he did so.

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