How to Use visage in a Sentence

visage

noun
Definition of visagenext
Synonyms for visagenext
  • Soon the call went up to strip Jackson’s visage off the $20 bill.
    — Robert W. Merry, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
  • Yet now is no time to let down the visage of outward calm.
    — Jason Randall, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The farmhouse is open for tours; her visage is on a stamp.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
  • Some compared the actor’s pale visage to that of a corpse.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • Across the sound in West Seattle, Cornell’s visage pops up all over the place.
    — Corbin Reiff, SPIN, 18 May 2022
  • Her visage was a symbol of what had taken place over the last month in France.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2019
  • Under the visage of the monster he was made-up to be, shined the kindest of spirits.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • His visage is now hard and fixed, as if the planes of his face have changed entirely.
    — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • And, if the book does well, Fox jokes there may be a place for Gus' visage on more than just his office wall.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The German activist’s visage is pale and wide, topped with messy, blond hair.
    — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The result is a spooky visage of some sort of golem staring out of the planet's surface.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Some staff members have seen the bone-white visage of a woman careening through the hall by the kitchen.
    — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The milky visages of the moon crew are part of a 50th anniversary tribute to the moon landing at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 July 2019
  • That Kennedy visage, like JFK himself, was short-lived.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2020
  • But aside from the visage of Grumpy Cat - who may not have been grumpy at all - feline faces don't tell us much about how cats feel.
    — Karin Brulliard, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The goal: a visage that glistened and gleamed, particularly in the glow of a ring light.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Iron Man’s visage is pained on just about every empty wall space from Queens to Venice.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 2 July 2019
  • The paint on some of the faces is unusually thick, suggesting that the visages are hard-won.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The bobcat stared out at me, her visage grim and determined.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • That visage has become the face of U.S. Soccer, but Morgan is now 33 and a mother.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Then, once cooled, a thicker opaque glaze is drizzled over the top and left to set up, giving the buns their iconic visage.
    — Ben Mimscooking Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • After it was reengineered for Taslim's head speed, the visage stayed, keeping the mystery.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Their visages are indistinct and can be nothing more than ovals of blotchy paint.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Did the earl’s alluring visage lie in too many lovers’ lockets?
    — Colin T. Eisler, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Strangers encountered on the street were even stranger—and the masks that covered their visage became a screen on which to project anxious thoughts.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 18 July 2023
  • Ice giant Neptune, named after the Roman god of the sea, has a grayer visage and clear rings of fine dust and ice dance around it.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2022
  • George Condo once painted her with a clown-like visage and bulbous, red nose.
    — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
  • And the Moon slips away, unseen, three millimeters monthly and so on etcetera till its visage will shirk this scene.
    — Christopher Cokinos, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • At the courthouse, President Biden’s beaming visage greets you in the foyer.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024
  • When Walpole died in 1797, his Roman bust changed hands several times, with some owners mistaking the visage for Alexander the Great.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2024

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