Example Sentences

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No doubt that famous brow has furrowed disapprovingly on a number of occasions in the last few months.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2011

The question has furrowed the higher brows from Sophocles and Heraclitus to Pirandello and John Dewey.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has wrung the hearts of the tender; it has furrowed the cheeks of the good.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green

It has wrung the hearts of the tender: it has furrowed the cheeks of the good.

From The Ghosts And Other Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green

You were swift, swift! here the forest ledge slopes— rain has furrowed the roots.

From Sea Garden by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)