How to Use countenance in a Sentence

countenance

1 of 2 noun

• The photograph showed his somber countenance.
• The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 18 May 2018
• At the sight of her bright smile and studied countenance.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 26 Feb. 2022
• The tone and timbre of his voice, his attire and his countenance evoke the sermons of my childhood.
  — Caleb Gayle, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• His broad smile falls away, replaced with a grave countenance.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
• On the last day of the Grand Prix, with his job on the line, his odds looked as grim as his countenance.
  — Ben Dooley, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2020
• For the most part, Trump adopted a sober countenance throughout his trip.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 2017
• Woods had just bogeyed the fifth and double bogeyed the short sixth, and his countenance was as foreboding as the clouds out to sea.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 18 July 2019
• With his big shock of gray hair and not unattractively worn countenance, Lopez is nice to have around.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• That is what the public sees — Easy Eli, with a gee-whiz countenance.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2019
• Her immense beauty is hidden in a cold palette and grim countenance.
  — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
• May Adonai raise His countenance toward you and grant you peace.
  — Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 28 Aug. 2023
• Cutts is slight with long blonde hair, a soft Glaswegian accent and an eager countenance.
  — Sam Rigby, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
• Dern adopts a weary countenance that suffuses her body with years’ worth of backstory.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 3 June 2022
• Eva Tavares opened the local stop on the tour as a lovely Christine, both in voice and bright-eyed countenance.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Yet events in Ukraine have not reached a point where Ukrainians can countenance compromise.
  — Christopher Blattman, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2022
• And though her countenance is Apollonian, her option for the world is Dionysian: release the brakes and drop the reigns.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2011
• At sixty, Øino has a boyish mop and the mild countenance of a country parson.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• Your countenance, though wrinkled and blemished, can be adorned with the joy of the Lord and made lovely with his kindness and compassion.
  — David Roper, idahostatesman, 26 Jan. 2018
• Striding inside the ropes between holes, the younger Woods maintained a stoic countenance and gazed ahead as fans shouted his name.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Dec. 2021
• Their facial expression and overall countenance was my cue to engage in light hallway banter.
  — Wunmi Bakare, Essence, 19 June 2021
• Leaning regally on front paws, her countenance is that of the imperial lioness yawning at her place atop the food chain.
  — Longreads, 28 Feb. 2018
• Enjoying the work is important when the job description includes the maintenance of an agreeable countenance.
  — Sarah Jaffe, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017
• Can an actor consciously use his countenance in a performance?
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 10 June 2022
• Bob sat alone at the counter, displaying a countenance that made other customers naturally leave an empty seat on either side of him.
  — Tom Hanks, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• Throughout, Benzema had the countenance of a man who had been recently startled.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 June 2023
• His typically cheery countenance creases and turns somber.
  — Romesh Ratnesar/redmond, Time, 8 Sep. 2019
• The horse-racing ministry of Hernandez can be measured in kind countenance and quiet footsteps.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
• While gray speckles in his beard betray his youthful countenance, Thompson’s face has largely remained the same.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• The final hints in the quest for Cleopatra’s countenance come from the writings of Romans in the centuries after her death, though some show obvious bias.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2021

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countenance

2 of 2 verb

• I don't countenance such behavior in children of any age.
• Franks knows the scent of damp earth under plow, the touch of sap on a cold tree, and how to write about men who cannot countenance the wildness of women.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023
• None seems likely to countenance anything like a break from Moscow.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2022
• They disapproved of the marriage, and could not be expected to countenance it.
  — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891
• Down in the basement were others, most of them pensioners too poor or too old to countenance the idea of going anywhere.
  — Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• The play does not countenance for a moment the possibility of an honest mistake.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2022
• Yet neither of them is willing to countenance being victims.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
• But here’s one theme you may never have countenanced: the science vacation.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• And Aileen can’t even countenance the possibility that her son might be guilty.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Sep. 2022
• To make matters worse, the right-wing judiciary has shown itself to be more than willing to countenance these power grabs.
  — Emma Roller, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2021
• Give up, go cash, be grateful for the fig leaves available to those who — bless them all — can’t countenance asking for money.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• The rebels were not even humiliated, when justice would have countenanced hanging them.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 27 Oct. 2019
• The best solution may be the one most remain unwilling to countenance: online jury trials.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• And yet the same Western governments that have cheered the Kurds’ efforts are unprepared to countenance their desire for a state of their own.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 26 Sep. 2017
• That may require a breaking of the status quo that neither Israel nor Abbas seems willing to countenance.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• Queen of the seas, Britain seemed to countenance the pirating activities of the North African corsairs.
  — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
• Of course the major domestic leagues cannot countenance the idea of seeing their competitions diminished.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2021
• The Christmas season also comes with a soundtrack few of us would ever countenance were it not for secular tradition.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2020
• The real threat to peace and security, of course, was the system of slavery itself and a Christianity that countenanced it.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2017
• The real threat to peace and security, of course, was the system of slavery itself and a Christianity that countenanced it.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2017
• Few want to countenance an even more extreme option: that the LCDM model is at fault.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
• Labour would not countenance a deal that left Britain as a passive recipient of rules decided elsewhere by others.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Germany has long been reluctant or unwilling to countenance any change that could put its taxpayers on the hook for its neighbors’ profligacy.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• How could these people countenance whole groups of their fellow human beings being negatively stereotyped and smeared?
  — Sally Kohn, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2018
• In that case, the former will likely countenance any plan to attack the latter without considering the possibility that they also might be harmed.
  — Daniel J. Pilla, National Review, 29 Sep. 2021
• There is even speculation that direct intervention to weaken the dollar might be countenanced.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• But, of course, the budget airline’s plan doesn’t countenance the most direct means of cutting carbon emissions: flying less.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Within a month of his audience with the shah, Sullivan fired off another report countenancing just that.
  — Amir-Hussein Radjy, New Republic, 6 July 2017
• Unwilling to countenance any risk at all, the most uncompromising of authoritarians have gone to even greater lengths to shield themselves from protest power.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020
• There were, as well, the human costs that today’s Green New Dealers, to their credit, would not countenance.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019

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