Example Sentences

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The first lady calls her “a menopausal toddler” — a description that Rachel Dratch, with her repertoire of cringes and moues, fully inhabits.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022

They may make moues at gnus or gape at apes, gawk at giraffes, elephants and zebras capering au naturel, or goggle at performing beasts, birds and fishes of uncanny talent.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I wish somebody would love me," he moues to Martin Milner on a 1950 episode of Life With Father.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he walks, he moues like an Engine, and the ground shrinkes before his Treading.

From Coriolanus by Shakespeare, William

The reasons that moues me to thinke that these are meere illusiones, ar these.

From Daemonologie. by James I, King of England