We found 28 examples of how to use countenance in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 28.
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| 1. | We will never countenance terrorism. | |
| 2. | The old man had a noble countenance. | |
| 3. | He has an evil countenance. | |
| 4. | The countenance of the countryside has changed. | |
| 5. | His remark put me out of countenance. | |
| 6. | He changed his countenance at the news. | |
| 7. | He changed his countenance when he saw me. | |
| 8. | Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. | |
| 9. | There are as many vipers hiding in the grass as there is evil lying beneath a beautiful countenance. | |
| 10. | They refused to countenance any suggestion of a power-sharing agreement with a man they deemed a radical. | |
| 11. | She was in a pretty rural dress of white; a few wild flowers were twisted in her fine hair; a fresh bloom was on her cheek; her whole countenance beamed with smiles. | |
| 12. | His complexion was as white as milk, his hair ruddy like flames, while his countenance shone as if it had just been washed. | |
| 13. | My mind had been too much excited by all that had occurred, and the strangest fancies and surmises crowded into it. Every time that I closed my eyes I saw before me the distorted baboon-like countenance of the murdered man. | |
| 14. | I glanced at my companion, and his face had assumed such a disconsolate expression that it was all I could do to keep my countenance. | |
| 15. | There was one thing in the case which had made the deepest impression both upon the servants and the police. This was the contortion of the Colonel's face. It had set, according to their account, into the most dreadful expression of fear and horror which a human countenance is capable of assuming. More than one person fainted at the mere sight of him, so terrible was the effect. | |
| 16. | He says smiling, and with a pleasant countenance, please nobody stop our running, the race is for a tankard of ale. | |
| 17. | It was always the image of the Master of Ravenswood, with his native nobleness of countenance and form, that seemed to interpose betwixt her and assured death. | |
| 18. | One of these strangers was about forty years of age, tall, and thin in the flanks, with an aquiline nose, dark penetrating eyes, and a shrewd but sinister cast of countenance. | |
| 19. | The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy. | |
| 20. | But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being enriched by his substance is become great. And perceiving also, that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day. | |
| 21. | He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks, and said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me. And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power. | |
| 22. | And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have found favour in thy eyes, receive a little present at my hands: for I have seen thy face, as if I should have seen the countenance of God: be gracious to me. | |
| 23. | But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance. | |
| 24. | And Joseph was of a beautiful countenance, and comely to behold. | |
| 25. | And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them sad, he asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than usual? |