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• The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.From the entry buff
• He clumsily made a pass at the prom queen, and she responded with a scowl.From the entry make a pass
• At least until the Magistra rushed into the room, her face set in a grim scowl.2017, Kevin MacGregor, editor, The Dark Eye: Starless Sky, Ulisses Spiele, →ISBN. From the entry magistra
• Lucy scowled at him, jabbing a fork in his direction and trying not to smile.2015, Kerry Wilkinson, Down Among the Dead Men, page 315. From the entry fally-aparty
• I can’t not see the ceiling fan.” “You can not scowl at it.2013, Shannon Stacey, All He Ever Dreamed, Carina Press, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry can not
• April Thornleigh – scowling as usual – had come as a spideress.2009, Scott Monk, Beyond the Knock-knock Door, Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry spideress
• But the music is the same, and so is the face, plus or minus a scowl.2007 July 3, Kelefa Sanneh, “In Rap, Inner War Can Be a Trap”, in New York Times. From the entry sweatshirted
• B's gargoylish face twisted into a scowl that seemed half-serious, half-humorous.1996, Daniel Quinn, The Story of B, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry gargoylish
• He's talking to himself, bachelorwise, and scowling at the map like a preacher reading Playboy.1995, David Foster, Plumbum: The Ultimate Heavy Metal Experience, page 38. From the entry bachelorwise
• Angus McGubbin: a Scots giant, red-haired and scowling - wouldn't you think so?1994, RobertsonDavies, The Cunning Man, Viking, published 1995, →ISBN, page 168. From the entry angus
• His mouth was set and his eyebrows were drawn together in a scowl.1956, Ngaio Marsh, “The Swords Again”, in Death of a Fool, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, section IV…. From the entry angryish
• He happens to be looking in their direction and scowls at them.1922, J. Hartley Manners, The National Anthem: A Drama, page 76. From the entry don't look now
• Trumplandia scowled them into this interest, but no matter.2023, Joseph Russo, “Queer Rot”, in Daniel Lukes, Stanimir Panayotov, editors, Black Metal Rainbows, Oakland, Calif.: PM Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Trumplandia
• Olivia's shocked-Pikachu face shifts into a full-on scowl.2020, Anna Meriano, “Just Tell Them You Play Soccer”, in Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between, page 180. From the entry shocked Pikachu
• As we laughed, we passed a table of scowling hosers and they gave our chortles an extra boost.2013, The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover, →ISBN. From the entry hoser
• Beach-tanned technocuties at distant tables who'd scanned them with interest when they came in now turned away scowling.2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 71. From the entry technocutie
• It is Stephen Gardiner, black and scowling, his aspect in no way improved by his trip to Rome.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, page 145. From the entry aspect
• When she did finally arrive, Maria wore a scowl that would have frightened cream into unchurning itself back into butter.2002, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, The Shadow of the Lion. From the entry unchurn
• Beside him now a leather-jacketted man with a flowered necktie, squat-nosed, sits scowling over a pint of lager.2002, Thomas E. Kennedy, “Davy Byrnes”, in Kerrigan’s Copenhagen: A Love Story, Galway: Wynkin deWorde, →ISBN, “[Week Three,] Days Six…. From the entry jacketted
• A visibly frail Roosevelt played his usual role of mediator between the pugnacious Churchill and the scowling tyrant Stalin.2000, Edward R. Kantowicz, Coming Apart, Coming Together, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry ring down the curtain
• She scowled frownlessly again and moved closer to the window.1993, William Kinsolving, The Diplomat's Daughter. From the entry frownlessly
• He scowled at Linn, his own deep scratches to show, a mule-stubborn man whom she again hated furiously.1959, The Saturday Evening Post. From the entry mule-stubborn
• He scowled at the rash, went "Hmmm" several times, then made a couple of sorties into his lab. . . .1955 Oct. 2, Hannah Smith, "The Doctors Who Try Our Patience," Youngstown Vindicator (US), Parade section, p. 8 (retrieved 20 Nov 2012). From the entry jargoneer
• " He turned a scowling face towards me.1940, Florence Ruth Howard, Green Entry, page 270. From the entry sonova
• Bradly scowled - the stigmata of alarm.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65. From the entry stigma
• A huge man with a notable cauliflower ear was peering into the car, a scowl of suspicion upon his face.1928 February 25 – March 3, Arthur Conan Doyle, “When the World Screamed”, in The Professor Challenger Stories […], London: John Murray…. From the entry cauliflower ear
• He removed his large Henry Clay decisively and his large fierce eyes scowled intelligently over all their faces.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry Henry Clay
• He wheeled around and saw a black-browed villain scowling at him over peanuts heaped on a steaming machine.1908, O. Henry, “Squaring the Circle”, in The Voice of the City, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, published 1914, pages 130–131. From the entry wheel around
• It's scowling—with blackedy eyebrows in crowds."2022, Musette Morell, The Antics of Algy, page 17. From the entry blackedy
• Here three aspiring young seamstresses—diplomas in dressmaking from the People’s College of Zimbabwe hung on the wall—bicker and scowl at each other.2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 16, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press. From the entry aspiring
• The schoolmarm came to an abrupt stop in her arithmetic quizzing, her face set into a pruny scowl that looked to be permanent.2013, Josh Rountree, Lon Prater, Alamo Rising. From the entry schoolmarm
• Lumpkin was standing all alone twenty feet away, scowling at his spare Rhino as the magnitude of the upset slowly penetrated his stegosauruslike brainpan.2005, Allen Kurzweil, Leon and the Spitting Image, New York: Scholastic, page 151. From the entry stegosauruslike
• He can be seen, for instance, mugging or scowling in Trick Daddy's “I'm a Thug,” where gold teeth, drop-down pants and tasteless jewelry abound.2004, Stanley Crouch, The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity. From the entry fast-tailed
• My young interpreter scowls, inserting into her translation her own memories of six-hour queues to buy milk, and of the feared Securitate secret police.1999 December 19, Chris Stephen, The Observer. From the entry Securitate
• But when he saw who they were he stopped short, and the black scowl on his face changed to wonder and delight.1955, Tolkien. J.R.R., “Chapter 7, Homeward Bound”, in The Return of the King. From the entry woolly-pated
• He scowled vacuously, keeping at bay a horrible enlightenment on the mechanism of effort, which must drive into being a resistance equal to itself.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 211. From the entry vacuously
• The Jeddak of Ptarth nodded his assent, but the ugly scowl that he bent upon Matai Shang harbored ill for that pasty-faced godling.1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warlord of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008. From the entry godling

Meaning of scowl

1. noun The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
2. noun Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
3. verb To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.

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How do you use scowl in a sentence?

Scowl is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She made a scowl.”

What is a short sentence with scowl?

“to scowl defiance”

What does scowl mean?

Scowl means the wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.