Sentence examples for set jaws from inspiring English sources

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Clenched or set jaws.

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The rugged, set jaw.

See Washington's set jaw and think of resolute leadership, not to mention those ill-fitting dentures.

"She wanted to make sure I wasn't dead," said Osborne, whose set jaw and stoic manner can famously make him look somnambulant.

It is quite appropriate aesthetically, from Aurelian on, that these later 3rd-century rulers chose to present themselves to their subjects in their propaganda with stubbly chin, set jaw, and close-cropped hair on a bullet head.

A stolidly sun-baked western with a female protagonist (played with a determinedly set jaw by Natalie Portman) more commendable than she is complex, Jane Got a Gun (Lionsgate, 15) will for ever be more interesting as a cinematic what-if than a what-is.

That face – the surly set jaw and stony scowl – is all over New York's subway walls right now.

With her set jaw and spiky hair, Crowder could be as hard-nosed as any academy instructor.

Baylor's set jaw suggested he might remember the incident after the Cubs crossed the international dateline.

They were such handsome women: the mother with her Victorian soulful rectitude and set jaw; the daughters with their sprightlier or softer 20th-century beauty.

On Tuesday he abandoned his jaunty stage presence for a more deliberate approach, substituting his signature broad grin with a set jaw.

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