mien

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The protesters’ mien was sober, they presented themselves as adults who were morally serious, they were morally responsible and meant moral business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Instead, the carefully prepared Cohen was subdued and succinct, admitting his lies and misdeeds in service of Donald Trump with a sorrowful mien.

From Salon • May 15, 2024

His vaguely lined mien suggests premature strain, which feels at odds with a character we’re to take as an expert dissembler, not to say a sociopath.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2024

Quickly, they assembled a ranked list of about a dozen men, more diverse in ethnicity and mien than Tolins’s initial character description — “old WASP-y money” — might suggest.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Then they hooked little fingers and shook hands gravely with the mien of bankers at a convention.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy