Word Finder - expression

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The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.

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A particular way of phrasing an idea.

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A colloquialism or idiom.

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The expression "break a leg!" should not be taken literally.

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A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.

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Her expression changed from joy to misery after realising her winning lottery ticket had expired.

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An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.

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The process of translating a gene into a protein.

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A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.

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A specific blend of whisky.

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The act of pressing or squeezing out.

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expression from a gland

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The tone of voice or sound in music.

By the expression on his face, he wasn't exactly enjoying the conversation.

His expression was unreadable.

His expression and tone were anything but understanding.

Her expression became thoughtful.

His expression was reflective as he continued to regard her.

Alex stared at her, his expression sour.

The expression on Felipa's face reflected both humor and interest.

Then her expression grew bland again.

The conversation he hears in his home stimulates his mind and suggests topics and calls forth the spontaneous expression of his own thoughts.

For a moment he gazed down at her, his expression much like the trapped fox in the hen house.

His expression was wary, but he said nothing.

Standing on the smooth sandy beach at the east end of the pond, in a calm September afternoon, when a slight haze makes the opposite shore-line indistinct, I have seen whence came the expression, "the glassy surface of a lake."

His expression was perplexed.

No teacher could have made Helen Keller sensitive to the beauties of language and to the finer interplay of thought which demands expression in melodious word groupings.

She hesitated, her expression pensive.

As he absorbed her words, his expression went from tense to relieved, and then on to something sweet and sad.

Instead of reading words on a page and trying to imagine a concept, we can see it, as the old expression goes, in Technicolor.

This expression evidently pleased him.

From time to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pavlovna, at once adopted just the expression she saw on the maid of honor's face, and again relapsed into her radiant smile.

She was looking at them with an expression they both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad.

Her early rages were an unhappy expression of the natural force of character which instruction was to turn into trained and organized power.

A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by.

This expression on his face pleased Natasha.

He was still lying on the bed as before, but the stern expression of his quiet face made Princess Mary stop short on the threshold.

Again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression appeared that they had worn when under fire.

It was the same face he had seen before, there was the same general expression of refined, inner, spiritual labor, but now it was quite differently lit up.

There was an expression of carefree happiness on the faces of both father and daughter.

Everyone was watching her with a horrified expression - even Jonathan and Destiny.

He had an intellectual and distinctive head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and habitual to him.

The countess shook her head disapprovingly and angrily at every solemn expression in the manifesto.

The faces all expressed animation and apprehension, but it seemed to Pierre that the cause of the excitement shown in some of these faces lay chiefly in questions of personal success; his mind, however, was occupied by the different expression he saw on other faces--an expression that spoke not of personal matters but of the universal questions of life and death.

A shopkeeper with red pimples on his cheeks near the nose, and a calm, persistent, calculating expression on his plump face, hurriedly and ostentatiously approached the officer, swinging his arms.

The Frenchman listened in silence with the same gloomy expression, but suddenly turned to Pierre with a smile.

During the hour Pierre watched them they all came flowing from the different streets with one and the same desire to get on quickly; they all jostled one another, began to grow angry and to fight, white teeth gleamed, brows frowned, ever the same words of abuse flew from side to side, and all the faces bore the same swaggeringly resolute and coldly cruel expression that had struck Pierre that morning on the corporal's face when the drums were beating.

The expression on all faces showed the tension people feel at the approach of those in authority.

He watched her while she wiped her hands, his expression unreadable.

His gaze traveled over her face in that familiar way, his expression reflective.

He nodded, his expression reflective again.

Señor Medena watched him for a moment, his expression guarded.

The hostility in his voice and expression was unnerving.

His gaze shifted to his mother and his expression softened.

The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

Everything about him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife.

Her beautiful eyes glanced askance at her husband's face, and her own assumed the timid, deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its drooping tail.

Prince Vasili said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room.

Anna Mikhaylovna, with a meek, sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door near the strange lady.

But the princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes--the look they had when she was not thinking of herself.

The movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play of expression on his face.

Several of those present smiled at Zherkov's words, expecting one of his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to the glory of our arms and of the day's work, they assumed a serious expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie devoid of any foundation.

This expression in Princess Mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to be shaken in her determination.