Example Sentences

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Pry must have grimaced when Tagovailoa hit Jones again in the third quarter for a 34-10 lead that helped send the Terps to their first bowl win since 2010.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2021

If the Raith defence were relieved at Buaben's profligacy, they must have grimaced at the sight of pacy Jennison Myrie-Williams sprinting on to the pitch, a substitute for Swanson.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2010

He must have grimaced because she burst out laughing.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

I have grimaced a smile and pattered unmeaning words to many a person whom I despised or from whom in heart I shrank; I did so because I had not courage to do otherwise. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, George