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Definition of long face in English: long facenoun An unhappy or disappointed expression. if you go to the party, don't spoil your Uncle's evening with a long face Example sentencesExamples - Even though students got an extra week, long faces were to be seen.
- The management had long faces when they found out.
- The performances are so stifled that at times one feels like throttling the characters to extract some kind of expression from them, apart from the usual long face.
- There were long faces on many of the students returning to Hazelwood College and the local National School after the summer break this week.
- Meanwhile, the six school board members in attendance wore chronically long faces and unanimously concurred that this realignment thing was a terribly unfortunate matter.
- To our great surprise all our friends and relatives have come instantly to our house only to collect their respective items with long faces.
- It is hard to believe that Christmas has come and gone, but it's true, and quite a few long faces have been spotted on the way back to work and school on these dark January mornings.
- Since we have a tendency to make long faces over issues that should otherwise make the countenance of our nation a smiling one, we take everything with a pinch of salt.
- Then we'd all go around with long faces for a week, until we began to think of something else and cheered up.
- Inevitably there were long faces among the home fans at the end of what has been an unfortunate week for the Perth side.
- The children were very fed up on Monday morning and there were some long faces.
- There are too many people going around with long faces.
- The problem is, they all do it with such long faces that they look like they're really hating it.
- Ardent movie buffs kept complaining that the electronic screen was no match for the big screen in the darkened auditorium, but there was nothing much that they could do about it except perhaps, go about with long faces.
- Comedy fans up and down the country may not have been tearing their clothes and covering themselves in ashes when the third and final series of The Fast Show was aired last November, but there were certainly some long faces.
- If we win that will put us a big step towards where we want to be, but if we lose there will be long faces all round.
- We celebrate it in our own way, with a hunt and a feast, rather than by putting on long faces and pounding our chests and going to bed hungry like foolish monks.
Derivatives adjective Halfway down a flight of stairs he encounters a long-faced, very earnest fellow strumming a guitar and singing to a group of young women who might well be Romance-language majors. Example sentencesExamples - Journalism may need some long-faced fellows to look backward and tell us how things have gone badly, but that species is in more than adequate supply.
- It was not a pleasant experience, driving along the road along with dozens of other long-faced motorists, all obviously suffering from post Bank Holiday blues.
- The bathing suit section was packed with long-faced women.
Definition of long face in US English: long facenoun An unhappy or disappointed expression. if you go to the party, don't spoil your Uncle's evening with a long face Example sentencesExamples - To our great surprise all our friends and relatives have come instantly to our house only to collect their respective items with long faces.
- There were long faces on many of the students returning to Hazelwood College and the local National School after the summer break this week.
- Since we have a tendency to make long faces over issues that should otherwise make the countenance of our nation a smiling one, we take everything with a pinch of salt.
- If we win that will put us a big step towards where we want to be, but if we lose there will be long faces all round.
- The problem is, they all do it with such long faces that they look like they're really hating it.
- It is hard to believe that Christmas has come and gone, but it's true, and quite a few long faces have been spotted on the way back to work and school on these dark January mornings.
- We celebrate it in our own way, with a hunt and a feast, rather than by putting on long faces and pounding our chests and going to bed hungry like foolish monks.
- Meanwhile, the six school board members in attendance wore chronically long faces and unanimously concurred that this realignment thing was a terribly unfortunate matter.
- The children were very fed up on Monday morning and there were some long faces.
- Comedy fans up and down the country may not have been tearing their clothes and covering themselves in ashes when the third and final series of The Fast Show was aired last November, but there were certainly some long faces.
- Inevitably there were long faces among the home fans at the end of what has been an unfortunate week for the Perth side.
- There are too many people going around with long faces.
- Ardent movie buffs kept complaining that the electronic screen was no match for the big screen in the darkened auditorium, but there was nothing much that they could do about it except perhaps, go about with long faces.
- The management had long faces when they found out.
- The performances are so stifled that at times one feels like throttling the characters to extract some kind of expression from them, apart from the usual long face.
- Then we'd all go around with long faces for a week, until we began to think of something else and cheered up.
- Even though students got an extra week, long faces were to be seen.
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