masklike

Example Sentences

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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

Most depict people, sometimes distilled to masklike faces, and often framed by or even immersed in foliage.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

In a series of 16 images, Warhol altered the photograph in various ways, notably by cropping and coloring it to create what his foundation’s lawyers described as “a flat, impersonal, disembodied, masklike appearance.”

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

In addition to her strenuous elocution, Joyce had strenuously proper posture and a masklike Pleasant Smile suitable for nearly all occasions public and private.

From The New Yorker • May 24, 2010

The rest of the group stood for a moment without speaking, staring at one another from masklike faces.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt