How to Use face in a Sentence

face

1 of 2 noun

• He has a round face.
• There are lots of new faces around the office.
• He fell flat on his face.
• I didn't recognize any of the faces around the table.
• I'll never forget the look on her face.
• His face is familiar but I can't remember his name.
• Meet new faces, see new places.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2026
• Half his face isn't smushed in.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
• Wide smiles broke out on many faces.
  — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026
• Dirty hair in strings around her face.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
• My thighs were more sore than my face.
  — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 20 Mar. 2026
• Barnes might be putting on a brave face.
  — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• Justin saw his wife’s face turn white.
  — Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
• That showed me my face got more reach.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2026
• Any shine u see blast it in the face.
  — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 4 June 2026
• The wiry face hair and fur is not labrador.
  — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
• Lay the face of the club square to the ball.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
• Shove the iPad in your kid’s face.
  — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 14 May 2026
• There is getting slapped in the face.
  — Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2026
• All in our faces, the children say.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• One of those men, who was shot in the face, now faces charges.
  — Stephen Swanson, CBS News, 28 May 2026
• The doctors found a cat claw in its face.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
• Towards the end, their faces got close.
  — Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
• Can't wait to see you and devour your face.
  — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
• The young guard is more of a face-up player.
  — Tony East, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• What happens to love in the face of all of that?
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2026
• But none of these cars spreads grins across the faces of sports-car guys.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
• But my wife’s face doesn’t soften.
  — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
• Yet, in the face of this, Noem has not been fired.
  — Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
• The same table, the same faces, for three decades.
  — Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2026

face

2 of 2 verb

• The house faces the park.
• Turn and face to the east.
• The teacher faced the class.
• She turned around to face the window.
• He sat facing the wall.
• The living room faces the afternoon sun.
• Look at the illustration on the facing page.
• My shoe was lying in the corner with its sole facing upward.
• The flower opens facing skyward.
• Only by facing your problems can you hope to overcome them.
• Darvish hasn’t faced the Cubs this year.
  — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• Pahlavi faces the same problem squared.
  — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
• But the country faces quite a slog to achieve that.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
• Ukraine faced steep losses but stayed in the fight.
  — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
• Luque, 27, faces the same charges as Reyes.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
• The question founders now face isn’t whether this pace is healthy.
  — Dasha Shunina, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• The pair is facing one charge each for burglary.
  — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
• The map faces a barrage of attacks.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025
• If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help.
  — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2025
• If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help.
  — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
• If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help.
  — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2026
• Other air taxi makers have faced worse fates.
  — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 29 May 2026
• The third row would be front-loaded with garages facing north.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
• Each one comes with a wood-burning stove and a porch facing the fields.
  — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2026
• Both teams will face Eastern Hills next.
  — Raul Avila, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025
• Wikipedia still faces its fair share of critics, some with very valid issues.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2026
• Brown faces state and federal charges, but court records do not yet show his plea.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
• The hope had been for Suárez to enter to face Ohtani.
  — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
• Each count faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
  — NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
• If convicted on all eight of his counts, Thug faces decades in prison.
  — Jewel Wicker, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2023