masklike

Example Sentences

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His masklike “Head of a Woman” from 1907—painted in preparation to create his iconic “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”—sold for $14.4 million, over its $8 million high estimate.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

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

It is first evident here in the stippled symmetry of the masklike “Paternal Homage” of 1971 and expanded upon with the addition of language in “Soweto/So We Too,” of 1979.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2017

As Swede’s wife, Dawn, Jennifer Connolly delivers a performance that becomes more masklike and rigid as her character recedes from a reality too wrenching to bear.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016

For a moment the Corporal stared at him, his own face masklike.

From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi