moue

Example Sentences

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Here, a midnight selfie from the trip: in the camera’s white flash, Tara’s purple buzzcut and wide, wry grin; his sheepish moue at his wormy mustache.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2022

Harper is haunted, and Buckley conveys her anxiety with wide, darting eyes, or twisting her mouth in a moue.

From Salon • May 20, 2022

“I don’t know Prince Andrew,” Trump sighed with a moue, despite there being significant photographic evidence to the contrary.

From The Guardian • Dec. 3, 2019

What is beyond doubt is the scheming suavity with which Huppert arms her character; seldom has the famous French moue been put to such withering use.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016

Here Dad would stop long enough to give his version of a depreciating moue, and hide his face coyly behind an upraised elbow.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey