make a wry face
Example Sentences
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"Mr. Hoover summons France to execute herself as he would summon Nicaragua," observed L'Ere Nouvelle, "and yet the whole world is astonished because we make a wry face!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Asked his opinion of the New Deal, its first victim could only make a wry face and helplessly wave his big paw in the air.
From Time Magazine Archive
History already has come to make a wry face on tasting the wine from N�rnberg's chalice.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'll e'en make a wry face, and go at it to-morrow.
From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Other partners like your joys, but they make a wry face over the sorrows, and like to squirm out of them if they can.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
