How to Use unsmiling in a Sentence

unsmiling

adjective

• In what may be the funniest scene of the series, Levy goes ice fishing with a man and his unsmiling 6-year-old son.
  — Anna Peele, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• There is a photograph of the act in which Houdini’s unsmiling face sticks out above the can (his knees were pulled up to his chest).
  — David Denby, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
• As the crowd erupts, an unsmiling Johnson greets his former foe.
  — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
• So how did fashion’s favorite unsmiling doyenne end up dabbling in the fine arts?
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2019
• Simpson is face-to-face with an unsmiling but polite woman who appears to be in her 60s.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• The crowd laps it up, but at least one unsmiling audience member, Ben (Justin H. Min), bites his tongue — for now, anyway.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Her face is calm, her mouth relaxed and unsmiling, and her eyes look directly at you with quiet and strong resolve.
  — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2018
• That would be Boris Volkov, one of those ruthless Russian gangsters with unsmiling bodyguards that are all but omnipresent in films these days.
  — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 10 July 2018
• Like Pfeiffer’s Elvira Hancock, Broughton uses her bangs like a shield and her unsmiling mouth like a razor blade.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 27 July 2017
• The older of the two sisters, Minnie Lee, stares hard at the camera, her gaze direct and unsmiling but pleasant, almost quizzical.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022
• The models are all business, unsmiling and striding quickly with shoulders tucked back and eyes focused ahead.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2018
• Some unsmiling young Negroes monotonously beat out African rhythms on drums all during his brief visit.
  — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2018
• Just the four adult Beatles, unsmiling but friendly, passing for ordinary boys, in a mob of little kids, old folks, teen girls, none of them noticing the rock stars.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
• In another, an unsmiling child model dressed in black totes another version of the Teddy, with a padlock around its neck and a fish-net shirt.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Fetine looks into the camera, unsmiling, with a gaze betraying some resentment about the choice made for her.
  — Washington Post, 25 May 2018
• Her gaze is numb, her unsmiling mouth and tired eyes speak the language of every mother who has ever wanted an extra hand or another hour in the day.
  — Gaile Robinson, star-telegram, 16 Feb. 2018
• No sooner did an unsmiling Althea drive a ball into the net in the first game of her first match than many among the thousands packed into the stands erupt into cheers, just as Clifford Webb had predicted.
  — Sally H. Jacobs, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2023
• Moser’s front cover comes to us without words: just a Richard Avedon photo from 1978, with its subject in a dark turtleneck and loose leather jacket, lean and handsome and unsmiling, yet maybe just a bit amused.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• Alisa Fedorovna herself was, like her cups and her candy, graceful, with thin, unsmiling lips, her pale-blond hair smoothly pulled back.
  — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Perched on the set designer Levi Lack’s rendering of the Fillmore’s mezzanine, the actors are motionless, unsmiling as the music booms around them.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• Zinke stands behind Trump, and just in front of him, unsmiling, is a Navajo elder in traditional jewelry.
  — Abe Streep, Outside Online, 1 May 2018
• Out stepped Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, thin and unsmiling.
  — Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 30 Sep. 2016
• Then, look in the upper left corner and find the highly serious, unsmiling security guard.
  — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 4 Apr. 2016
• Böhm's images appear like relics from the 19th century, with solemn -- and often unsmiling -- subjects dressed in traditional Dutch outfits.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
• Mashburn’s Cecilia is an amusingly unsmiling icon to her son, a demanding monster-in- law to his wife/assistant.
  — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 1 May 2017
• Richardson ripped off the orange wig to reveal braids as her name was called before Friday’s final, drawing startled cheers and laughs inside the stadium, but never cracked her unsmiling expression, then loaded into the blocks.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
• Even typically unsmiling army and security personnel enjoyed the moment, laughing and high-fiving along with the throng.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 1 July 2018
• A little later, one model appears before the unsmiling casting tribunal, awaiting their instructions as a Boston terrier lingers for no good reason in the background.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Oct. 2022
• The visual design of the show is exceptional, from Andrés’s cerulean hair and asymmetrical ruffled blouses to the creepily pastel dental office where the unsmiling Úrsula works.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• The minister of Islamic affairs and guidance, normally an unsmiling type, now cheerily defended the opening of cinemas and mass layoffs of Wahhabi imams.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024