mask
noun
a covering for all or part of the face, worn to conceal one's identity.
masklike
-
a word derived from
mask.
Example Sentences
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The new findings provide firm dates for two black images, a bison and a masklike figure, and reveal that parts of the artwork were created during widely separated periods.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
His masklike “Head of a Woman” from 1907—painted in preparation to create his iconic “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”—sold for $14.4 million, over its $8 million high estimate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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
The first piece sold on Chain/Saw, “Colors of the Inside” by French 3-D artist Benjamin Lemoine, is a 14-second video clip of a masklike face being colorfully punctured from within.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2021
The long fine nose, the dainty flare of the nostrils—there was something masklike and carved about the face, and very still.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
