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- noun Plural form of
grimace . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
grimace .
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Examples
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Brandi Chastain grimaces after breaking a bone in her right foot during the first half of the USA's opener vs. Sweden.
USATODAY.com - Chastain's tough time personally, professionally 2003
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Madam Cavendish was at table that night, though moving with grimaces from the stiffness of her rheumatic joints, and she ordered that the sailors be given cider, the which they drank with some haste, and were gone.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900
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The friend, seeing from this and from certain grimaces of his comrade that he had not kept his word, said to him in great indignation, If you are jealous, my friend, that is a natural thing; but, after the oaths you have sworn to me, I cannot help telling you that I am aggrieved by your having concealed it so long.
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They also dislike mustard, sauces, etc., when they first eat them, and indeed nothing can be more ludicrous than their grimaces are the first time mustard is given to them upon a piece of meat.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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MALVEAUX: I just saw those kind of grimaces, those awkward moments, you know, with Cheney and everybody when they were behind the president, Bush.
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That was one of those ones where the staff kind of grimaces and goes, oh!
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That was one of those ones where the staff kind of grimaces and goes, oh!
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On that large, winding porch stood three dozen or so men donned in dark black suits sporting slicked hair, three generations of rugged men wielding cigarettes and weathered grimaces.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Buzzing Cicadas and Jewish Gangsters Derek Beres 2011
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On that large, winding porch stood three dozen or so men donned in dark black suits sporting slicked hair, three generations of rugged men wielding cigarettes and weathered grimaces.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Buzzing Cicadas and Jewish Gangsters Derek Beres 2011
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On that large, winding porch stood three dozen or so men donned in dark black suits sporting slicked hair, three generations of rugged men wielding cigarettes and weathered grimaces.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Buzzing Cicadas and Jewish Gangsters Derek Beres 2011
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