How to Use mien in a Sentence
mien
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Topol at least carries the milieu of the play in his mien and bearing.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
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In camo at least, the treatment gives the new nose a mildly Mustang mien.
—Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2017
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Woltz was an Eagle Scout, which, in a way, remains his mien.
—Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
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The veteran’s mien that Sanchez displays does not desert him in the batter’s box.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2016
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And some looks are simply built to last, making for an iconic look mien the Oakland Raiders.
—Teresa M. Walker, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2019
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The mien of the Frost Giants was reflective of their symbolic role in the Norse cosmogony.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2013
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And, unlike his frowny mien on the cover of the pair's album, Buckingham's broad smile said it all.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 June 2017
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The son, his hair freshly cut, bears a similar mien to the one Rembrandt bore in his own self-portrait at age 34.
—Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 11 June 2021
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The Durango’s exhaust sounds tough, and a stiff ride and firm brakes complete its truckish mien.
—Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver, 13 July 2017
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Bolton has a famously hawkish mien, and a very dim and oft-stated view of the North Koreans’ honesty and the prospects for peace.
—Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 4 May 2018
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His younger, thinner brother, David, had a more serious mien and spoke less.
—Lou Weiss, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
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The plant tends to bloom just before Halloween in keeping with its menacing mien.
—Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
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With his hangdog mien and pained smile, Strong excels most in the quiet moments of Kendall's inner turmoil.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2021
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On the other hand, Brady seems to have adopted some of Belichick’s traditional mien.
—BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
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In each case, the Mooch took on the mien of his new patron—demonstrating, if nothing else, his remarkable shape-shifting skills.
—Felix Salmon, Slate Magazine, 28 July 2017
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After eight years of aggressive third-wave-feminist virtue signaling, the White House has adopted the mien of the alt-right.
—Tiana Lowe, National Review, 7 Aug. 2017
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View 19 Photos This might matter less if the TourX had a decidedly sportier mien.
—James Lipman, Car and Driver, 19 Mar. 2018
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Fights and robberies in the shelter were not uncommon, but Mr. Chin managed to deflect attention with a tough-guy mien.
—New York Times, 8 July 2022
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Nora’s sugar-sparkled mien reflects her clear and combative sense of what women are up against.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
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Trager’s Preysing shows us the glowering man of appetites suppressed beneath the successful-man-of-business mien.
—Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
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Made from mung bean starch, glass noodles are also referred to as mien or cellophane noodles.
—Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2017
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Players all maintained a noble mien, but gave each phrase a life elaborately shaped.
—Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 Feb. 2018
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Their rabbi, Samuel Rosenblatt, had a scholarly mien and a formal manner.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 1 Mar. 2022
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The couple’s hands do not quite touch; the woman’s wide-eyed gaze and her companion’s furtive mien avoid each other and offer no resolution.
—Colin B. Bailey, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
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Keeping with Finn's own mien, the record's 12 songs are delightful, quirky, cool, and occasionally dark.
—Katherine Turman, EW.com, 1 June 2021
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Still, a sense of weary maturity is unmistakable in the artist, the philosophical mien of a survivor.
—Andrew Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
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Juventus’s decision to appoint Fabio Capello — his mien, even then, that of a stern immortal hewn from basalt — appeared a safe bet, but many of the others were not.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
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Carson’s response to Schatz somehow managed to be both his most substantive of the day and the one that best distilled his daylong mien of a student fumbling through an oral exam.
—Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 12 Jan. 2017
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Unlike hearing Cher toy with the kitsch of electronic modernism until making it her mien, Dion simply sounds robotic and dull.
—A.d. Amorosi, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
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This resignation gave her a cooler and slower, almost forestalled, mien and this shift made Olof more attentive.
—Agnes Callard, Harper's Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
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