smooth-faced

Example Sentences

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WASHINGTON—A smooth-faced 41-year-old Donald Trump settled in before a live studio audience assembled for The Oprah Winfrey Show and held forth on how America should be getting a cut of Kuwaiti oil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

At its climax our heroes must escape from certain death deep underground and then, without ropes or handholds, somehow scale the 80 feet of a smooth-faced well that is rapidly filling with water.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2019

Christopher Columbus’ contemporaries viewed facial hair as primitive and uncivilized until the scraggly sailors caught sight of the smooth-faced denizens of the “New World,” and what do you know?

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2016

A conspicuous space formed around the smooth-faced 26-year-old woman and her baby, also a survivor, as she sat on a bench.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2014

From the neck down he was the same old Grandpa Blakeslee; from the neck up he was a distinguished, smooth-faced stranger who looked kind of familiar.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns