masklike

Example Sentences

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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

As Swede’s wife, Dawn, Jennifer Connolly delivers a performance that becomes more masklike and rigid as her character recedes from a reality too wrenching to bear.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016

And there’s a knockout collage portrait, finished last year, by Ebony G. Patterson, who divides her time between Jamaica and Lexington, Ky., of a young black man with a masklike white face.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2012

My lip curls, but otherwise I keep my expression as masklike as I know how, as cruel and cold as the face that reoccurs in my nightmares.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black