hostile stare

Example Sentences

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Miss Anstruther and Susan exchanged bows—Susan's timid and frightened, Miss Anstruther's accompanied by a hostile stare and a hardening of the fat, decaying face.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham

He wanted to get out of Lord Evelyn's house, out of the range of his kindly, whimsical smile and Cheriton's curious hostile stare; he wanted to be alone with Hilary, and to understand.

From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

There was the same cold, hostile stare that he had had from the boss of the fertilizer mill.

From The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton

Nearly everyone nodded and smiled, but one girl who sat at the far end of a long typewriter table regarded her with an intent, almost hostile stare.

From Signal in the Dark by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)

Yet his eagerness did not trip him into carelessness, and so long as the guards could see, he greeted me with a hostile stare.

From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott