Example Sentences

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This beetling between England and Ireland would be repeated throughout his life.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2017

From almost anywhere in La Rinconada, you look up and you see her: La Bella Durmiente, Sleeping Beauty, an enormous glacier beetling above the town.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015

His unusual actorly physiognomy—the ruddy, transparent skin, the bulky but far from graceless body, the beetling blond eyebrows—lent itself to all manner of physical and gestural shape-shifting.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2014

Each looked like a character the other might have drawn, Maurice with his fireplug body and beetling brows and Robert with his shock of Wild Thing hair.

From Slate • May 9, 2012

Clive Pike, to my left, eyes beetling bigger than humanly possible, g-force ribbling his face.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell