masklike

Example Sentences

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Typically fever is accompanied by cognitive changes, headache and vomiting, and sometimes seizures or a masklike face, indicative of harm to the same neurons that are damaged in Parkinson’s disease.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 21, 2023

The first piece sold on Chain/Saw, “Colors of the Inside” by French 3-D artist Benjamin Lemoine, is a 14-second video clip of a masklike face being colorfully punctured from within.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2021

The men’s antagonism deepens as Wake jabbers and Winslow rages, a fury that Pattinson makes visible with eyes that widen into bulges and tremors of emotion that ping under a masklike vacancy.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2019

In addition to her strenuous elocution, Joyce had strenuously proper posture and a masklike Pleasant Smile suitable for nearly all occasions public and private.

From The New Yorker • May 24, 2010

Ess only shook her head, her face still masklike.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder