Plural of grimace

Forms of grimace

Grimaces in a sentence

• Her face, with its self-deprecating little smiles and giggly grimaces, signals that she is really just another nice and nervous girl.2012, Sally Bedell Smith, Diana in Search of Herself - Portrait of a Troubled Princess. From the entry smiles and giggly
• King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue” hardly need mentioning.1996, Linda Badley, Writing Horror and the Body…. From the entry grue
• And she grimaces and distorts her features while she thinks and talks, trying perhaps to distract attention from the un-beauty of her face by keeping it in motion.1982, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 44. From the entry unbeauty
• I well remember, in school on a winter's day, looking up and observing some boy or girl, with painful grimaces, surreptitiously caressing a footful of empurpled chilblains.1973, David Morrison, Essays on Fionn MacColla, page 12. From the entry footful
• There was also a close temporal contiguity between "smiling" or other "emotional" grimaces and mouthing and tonguing movements, so that it was often difficult to distinguish between mouthing and smiling.1987, Peter H. Wolff, The Development of Behavioral States and the Expression of Emotions in Early Infancy, page 15. From the entry mouth

Meaning of grimace

1. noun A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.
2. noun Affectation, pretence.
3. verb To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

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Questions about the plural of grimace

What is the plural of grimace?

The plural of grimace is grimaces.

Is grimace countable?

Grimace is a countable noun.