'troubled face' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a facial expression that shows worry, sadness, confusion, or distress. For example: "Alice looked up at her father with a troubled face."
Let's look again into that greying, worn, troubled face in Jerusalem and, as in a cinema flashback, see the hair regain its colour and the features set once more into the smile that shattered a host of Tory safe seats.
In Chim's photograph, both the drawing and the girl's deeply troubled face testify to the trauma of her experience, searing evidence of the toll of war on children.
It made a troubled face as it slept.
I climbed the stairs to the second floor and found an American colonel with a troubled face.
"I said we have to go and forget about all our worries," Mr. Sherman explained, a look of reluctant hope on his troubled face.
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In the months and years to come, the world's third-largest economy, already troubled, will face even more challenges.
Seattle's situation is among the most acute, though troubles face almost every company in the country.
"Participants seeking to dodge troubles face the same problem as someone seeking to avoid venereal disease," he wrote.
Among the troubles facing the market is a pervasive sense that houses are a bad bet.
Manchester United manager David Moyes insists the club's supporters understand the troubles facing their side at present.
