Example Sentences

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Then and now, temperance crusaders were lampooned as hatchet-wielding, hatchet-faced, uptight spoilsports, zealots who smashed up barrooms and beer halls and in general wanted to stop men from having a good time.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2022

As far as the chain of command goes, Gwyneth is almost permanently flanked in this trailer by someone who seems to be a slightly hatchet-faced wellness consigliere, but is apparently Goop’s chief content officer.

From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2020

She just had to bend forward so that an unsmiling hatchet-faced policewoman could inspect her hair and probe her mouth with a flashlight.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 11, 2016

Weaver is effective as the fanatical matriarch, a performance to be compared to Nancy Marchand's imperious portrayal of Tony Soprano's hatchet-faced mother Livia.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2011

“Let me handle him,” urged a hatchet-faced man with sunken acrimonious eyes and a thin, malevolent mouth.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller