(n.) A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.
(v. i.) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I commiserate about the overnight flight that brought them here, Linney gives a wry grimace.
(2) The authors describe two cases of tardive dyskinesia in which severe axial dystonia and intense facial grimacing produced marked discomfort as well as social and physical disability.
(3) At the time of presentation the child exhibited dilated pupils, ataxia, urinary retention, and facial grimacing.
(4) Typically, their ongoing ward behavior consisted of very low level activity, involving small peripheral limb movements, wandering or blinking eyes, mouthing or grimacing, and repetitive, reflexive types of patterns labeled "fixed action sequences."
(5) Subjects were placed alone in a room where purposeful oral activity such as eating, talking and smoking was not permitted, while activity such as pursing the lips sucking on cheeks, grimaces etc was measured by a specially designed electromyometer.
(6) Where there were pictures of powerful women, the images tended to be subversive: the same photograph of a grimacing Theresa May was used to illustrate three different stories about the home secretary, and two of the three pictures of the German chancellor showed Angela Merkel puffing out her cheeks, looking mildly absurd.
(7) This manifests itself as a bit of a grimace when a kiddie pops up in front of his gun, a tut when colleagues show a lack of concern for collateral damage. "
(8) Madrid artist Deno is oblivious to the grimacing, concentrating on needling a giant scaly fish into his chest.
(9) We are preparing to erect a tent city close to the border.” Silva Ali, 10, grimaces as she swallows the polio vaccine administered, then sticks out her tongue.
(10) Case 1 (proband): A 28-year-old man was hospitalized because of facial grimace, dysarthria, and generalized dystonia.
(11) See how much I look like Eric!” he said, grimacing.
(12) Mild or severe discomfort, in the form of straining, stretching, arching, grimacing, writhing, shaking, doubling up, eye closure and restlessness is reported in 69 cases.
(13) When I tell friends I'm going to meet him, they grimace and roll their eyes.
(14) According to official witnesses, Angel Diaz strained against the straps, grimaced and attempted to mouth words for nearly a half-hour after the start of the procedure.
(15) Yet here they stand, a reality-TV star turning it on for the camera, his unnaturally white teeth bearing a smile – or is it a grimace?
(16) After 3 and 12 months, respectively, two of the cebus monkeys developed buccolingual signs (grimacing and tongue protrusion), similar to tardive dyskinesia in the clinic.
(17) As her energetic terriers Benny and Buddy squabble, nipping and harassing half a dozen other spaniels and terriers tearing after tennis balls on the softly sloping hill that marks the Battle of Bannockburn, Gail NcNeill looks up at the greatest hero of Scottish independence and grimaces.
(18) The Queen's perma-grimace belied her true feelings.
(19) After all, she asks, before proceeding to pose for the camera with two crab-shaped balloons, grimacing and spitting sexual innuendos ("Crabbbbbbbbbbbssss!
(20) The responses consisted of an immediate withdrawal of both the affected and unaffected leg, followed by facial grimacing and crying.
Grown
Definition:
() p. p. of Grow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brain and ganglia of embryonic Periplaneta americana were grown for 2 to 3 weeks in a chemically defined medium.
(2) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(3) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(4) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
(5) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
(6) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
(7) The latest story will show Bridget more "grown up" but she is "never going to change really".
(8) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
(9) When it was grown, it would bring both ecstasy and catastrophe to women.
(10) Peptidoglycan of MRSA grown in the presence of cefazolin was susceptible to lysis by respiratory mucus.
(11) Further, metastatic tumors were capable of being successfully grown in a high percentage of cases, which was comparable to the results obtained for other kinds of tumors.
(12) Cultures of Streptococcus mutans HS-6, OMZ-176, Ingbritt C, 6715-wt13, and pooled human plaque were grown in trypticase soy media with or without 1% sucrose.
(13) C. tropicalis was grown in a medium containing Brij 35, resulting in the induction of a moderate number of medium-sized peroxisomes.
(14) In the course of its history, psychiatry has grown richer parallel to the development of its spatiotemporal system of the reference.
(15) When grown in the absence of the inhibitor, these cells possessed very high ornithine decarboxylase levels.
(16) But its population has since grown to 2.8 million people, meaning the region would have one police officer for every 530 people if the force was to be cut back to 1974 levels.
(17) Mutation rates in aerobically-grown cultures were increased up to 2.2-fold in katG and katEkatG strains.
(18) Bacillus subtilis grown at 42 degrees C produces a major form of Gro EL-like chaperonin that has been analyzed by electron microscopy.
(19) Growth of C. albicans in the presence of AGE affected the yeast lipid in a number of ways: the total lipid content was decreased; garlic-grown yeasts had a higher level of phosphatidylserines and a lower level of phosphatidylcholines; in addition to free sterols and sterol esters, C. albicans accumulated esterified steryl glycosides; the concentration of palmitic acid (16:0) and oleic acid (18:1) increased and that of linoleic acid (18:2) and linolenic acid (18:3) decreased.
(20) Twenty-eight out of 49 countries in [sub-Saharan] Africa have not had a household survey since 2006 and yet in Africa since 2005 the population has grown by 30%,” she said.