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

Most depict people, sometimes distilled to masklike faces, and often framed by or even immersed in foliage.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 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

The masklike face, the red eyes, and the bloody nose were classic signs of Ebola that appear in all primates infected with the virus, both monkeys and humans.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston