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

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 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

The tones were replete with mild consternation, and the look that went with them was smileless to the degree of actual gloom.

From Eleven Possible Cases by Fyles, Franklin

A grim landlord, hard creditor, close-fisted patron, and a smileless neighbor who neither gambled nor drank, old Hays, as he was called, while yet scarce fifty, had few acquaintances and fewer friends.”

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs