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Examples
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But, like any circus athlete, you trained yourself out of the face-making period.
Chapter 15 2010
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But the council still seems to have asked its attorney to look into the legal ramifications of a rule that would encompass eye-rolling and (presumably) face-making.
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Reuters A combination of photos taken before a heat in the men's 200 meters shows Mr. Bolt's face-making versatility.
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Again, for those aren't charmed, that was one of his least believable moments--right up there with the Ron Brown funeral face-making.
Do sociopaths care what people think? Ann Althouse 2007
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On my way, I passed by my face-making friend, Chris Morgan.
Still Kicking Katie Hnida 2006
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I am delighted to hear that he has such an inventive genius as to face-making.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
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But, like any circus athlete, you trained yourself out of the face-making period.
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But, like any circus athlete, you trained yourself out of the face-making period.
Adventure Jack London 1896
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In the southern parts of Italy more violent shrieking, face-making, and gesticulating, greater vehemence of speech and countenance and action, went on about that
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In the southern parts of Italy more violent shrieking, face-making, and gesticulating, greater vehemence of speech and countenance and action, went on about that Bottle than would attend fifty murders in a northern latitude.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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