How to Use game face in a Sentence

game face

noun
  • People walk in with their game face on.
    — Tom Roberts, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Stiller says, turning on his game face as the camera is rolling.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 8 June 2026
  • The Uli tribe goes from morning Zen to game face mode.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Eventually, the emotion had to be turned off and the game face put on.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Harmon, who took to guarding Chavez like a hungry piranha coming off a fast, still wore her game face in postgame.
    — Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 3 Feb. 2026
  • How do star lucha libre wrestlers Persephone and La Catalina prepare their game face ahead of a match?
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026
  • And an unaired scene on day 21 shows a key player’s mental headspace and game face going into a crucial competition.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Game director Cary Trzcinski made sure emotions did not boil over and lead to a melee, sticking his thick body and fierce game face into one brewing moment in the second half.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Odenkirk had to fight to keep his game face intact each night, listening to McKean deliver one seemingly straightforward dramatic line.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • As a 7-year-old, I’d entertain my father’s friends, at their weekly pickup game at a Bronx barn-house gymnasium, by imitating his game face—bottom lip jutting, eyes scowling.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 14 June 2026
  • Moses could put his real game face on and settle into his pre-race routine—even if a bit rushed—to get Pal in the zone, and then send him off into the Valley of Roses to pick up his jockey, then on to the starting gate.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • And there was Staley prowling the sideline on Saturday afternoon at Golden 1 Center in a Sweet 16 showdown with a Southeastern Conference rival, her game face contrasted by what was on her shirt.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 29 Mar. 2026

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