Poker Face Sentence Examples
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Similar words: interface, user interface, poker, surface, defaced, surface water, surface tension, face to face. Meaning: adj. deliberately impassive in manner.
1 She sat poker-faced all the way through the film.
Each student will be dealt 8-10 white cards, each of which contains a noun or gerund. One player draws a black card and places it face up for all to see. This black card will have a question or fill-in-the-black statement. Wearing a poker face: studiously neutral; giving nothing away. John, in his most poker-faced manner, continued to explain the rules. Examples of poker in a sentence, how to use it. 99 examples: They freed coal scuttles, but taxed pokers, tongs and shovels. Theoretically.
2 His expressions varied from poker-faced to blank.
3 Our passports were checked by poker-faced officials.
4 The checkers at the airport were poker-faced but affable.
5 Not even Will Rogers could make the poker-faced President laugh.
7 Never go out of the poker-faced.
8 Mr Gooch, an indefatigable and poker-faced researcher, tracks down the one man known to have kissed her: 'I had the feeling of kissing a skeleton and in that sense it was a shocking experience.'
9 Poker-faced life habits, habits hard to make our hearts hard.
10 I hope that he will in my poker-faced when the force of the Loujin me gently.
11 Don't think the tough, poker-faced attitude means you won't get the job.
12 I hope that he will in my poker-faced when the force of the hold tightly in his arms gently.
13 Otherwise, it is an extraordinary procession of poker-faced melodrama of stadium proportions.
14 And their poker-faced to only cast a glance at her, and then play again.
15 Poker-faced liars could be caught out by a new technique that monitors tiny changes in blood flow and expression.
16 Throughout his treatise Pope maintains the pose of the poker-faced instructor.
17 He champed on his gum in time to the music,[www.Sentencedict.com] and kept a poker-faced expression.
18 One can easily toss away the chair and buy a plastic one, he tells poker-faced officials, but if it were repaired and cleaned, the Ming chair would be worth 10, 000 plastic chairs.
19 The group shucks its body armor and marches into an auditorium filled with poker-faced men in su its or clerical garb and women with covered heads.
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poker face
A blank, emotionless expression that gives no indication of one's thoughts or intentions. Poker players use such an expression so as not to give their opponents any clues about which cards they are holding. I kept looking over to see if she was impressed, but she wore a poker face throughout the performance.Now, make sure you keep your poker face on for these negotiations—we can't let them know where we stand.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
poker face
A visage lacking any expression that can be interpreted, as in Whenever Betty attended one of her children's performances, she managed to keep a poker face . This term alludes to the facial expression of a poker player who is expert at concealing his feelings about his hand. [c. 1880]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Poker Face Sentence Examples List
Total lack of expression; deadpan. This term comes from gambling, where the astute player tries not to betray the quality of his or her hand by remaining expressionless. Originating in the late nineteenth century, the term was transferred to other areas in which individuals tried hard not to betray their thoughts. C. E. Mulford used it in his western novel, Rustler’s Valley (1924): “He glanced around the circle and found poker faces.”
Poker Face Sentence Examples Definition
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