hostile stare
Example Sentences
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Miss Anstruther and Susan exchanged bows—Susan's timid and frightened, Miss Anstruther's accompanied by a hostile stare and a hardening of the fat, decaying face.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham
The girl had nodded toward Joe Lorey, who was standing not far off, observing them with an unwavering and disapproving, almost definitely hostile stare.
From In Old Kentucky by Marshall, Edward
Nearly everyone nodded and smiled, but one girl who sat at the far end of a long typewriter table regarded her with an intent, almost hostile stare.
From Signal in the Dark by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)
There was the same cold, hostile stare that he had had from the boss of the fertilizer mill.
From The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton
It flew open almost immediately, and a fierce-looking little man confronted us with a hostile stare.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
