How to Use mien in a Sentence

mien

noun
  • He has the mien of an ancient warrior.
  • Topol at least carries the milieu of the play in his mien and bearing.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • But sometimes what shines through a portrait is more color than mien.
    — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2025
  • In camo at least, the treatment gives the new nose a mildly Mustang mien.
    — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Some minor relief in Altman’s mien should be in sight.
    — Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 17 May 2026
  • Cornyn is tall, long-faced, and dignified, with the mien of an aging cowboy.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
  • Shamaly has light brown skin, an irreverent sense of humor, and a loner’s mien.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • The veteran’s mien that Sanchez displays does not desert him in the batter’s box.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2016
  • His younger, thinner brother, David, had a more serious mien and spoke less.
    — Lou Weiss, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
  • Jaron was tall and thin, with conjoined eyebrows, his usual mien the dazed air of someone just getting off a long flight.
    — Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Made from mung bean starch, glass noodles are also referred to as mien or cellophane noodles.
    — Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The plant tends to bloom just before Halloween in keeping with its menacing mien.
    — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • De Shields arrived first, wearing a buffalo-plaid toque and a mien of utter gameness.
    — Henry Alford, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The ancient estate and Henry’s melancholic mien put us deep into the tropes of that genre before the plot even gets moving.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Gone were the white medical coats and dour miens of Kinsey and Masters and Johnson.
    — Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • On the other hand, Brady seems to have adopted some of Belichick’s traditional mien.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • That impulse to impute something more behind the blank mien of a doll has come to fascinate her on a philosophical level.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2024
  • Their rabbi, Samuel Rosenblatt, had a scholarly mien and a formal manner.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Colvin, a sinewy former high-school wrestler whose rounded silver eyeglasses give him a scholarly mien, was plenty intrigued.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The mien of the Frost Giants was reflective of their symbolic role in the Norse cosmogony.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2013
  • 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
  • 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
  • On weekdays, trains occasionally adopt the freewheeling mien of the flaneur.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 23 May 2017

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