Example Sentences

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"While there are some spectacular fight sequences with a large - but totally bloodless - death toll, there is a distinct lack of humour in this version, making it both songless and smileless," she said.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2020

I mean, I could see that’s where she’d come from, that “Last Resort” girl with her dead eyes and her pale face and her smileless lips.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall—all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

"I work on the land," said Kennedy McClure with smileless deference.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Madame Baudoin turned quickly to Commander Dupré, who now stood silent, smileless, at her sister's side.

From Studies in love and in terror by Lowndes, Marie Belloc