grimacing
Speech parts
1. grimacing - Noun
2. grimacing - Verb
Meaning
grimacing
present participle of grimace
grimacing (plural grimacings)
The act of making a grimace.
Synonyms
Examples
Behaviors such as facial grimacing and guarding indicate pain, as well as an increase or decrease in vocalizations, changes in routine behavior patterns and mental status changes.
Consider her now, yanking open the oven and grimacing in its scorching blasts as she pulls out the bread tin.
For example, the Warehouse Bar, built in 1883 and relatively unchanged to this day, is full of memorabilia and a 16 foot stuffed polar bear grimacing over a stuffed seal cub.
Kate heard a knock on the open door of her office, and looked up to see Anneke from dispatch, grimacing apologetically.
It’s a sparkling Sunday afternoon, and three grimacing youths are loitering in the bile-green doorway of Off Ya Tree, that marvellously monikered emporium at the city-end of Sydney’s Oxford Street.
With hesitant, almost grimacing smiles, she lets herself get caught up in Fuller’s increasingly out-of-control drama, culminating in an off-kilter hostage situation that suggests a toned-down Coen Brothers flick.