masklike
- a word derived from mask.
Example Sentences
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Johnson is prized for his “Broken Men” grids of anxious-seeming, masklike figures composed of shards of ceramic tile, mirror, shells and wood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Typically fever is accompanied by cognitive changes, headache and vomiting, and sometimes seizures or a masklike face, indicative of harm to the same neurons that are damaged in Parkinson’s disease.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Most depict people, sometimes distilled to masklike faces, and often framed by or even immersed in foliage.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
“Feud” fails to see that the pure, masklike totality of Crawford’s performances was made not of pieces or interpretations but of a seemingly whole being who visually sings through the screen.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2017
But at this moment the meaning of the masklike attachment in front of it suddenly sank into him.
From "1984" by George Orwell
