How to Use stone-faced in a Sentence

stone-faced

adjective
  • The justices sat stone-faced, their hands in their laps.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Comey sat stone-faced, staring straight ahead, through most of the hearing.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Most other Democrats sat stone-faced but some appeared upset or annoyed.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The men entered a negotiating room stone-faced.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Even among those participating though, some giggled and guffawed, while others stayed stone-faced.
    — David Oliver, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Holland remained stone-faced, listening.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Kohberger remained stone-faced and showed no visible emotion during these statements.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Portman mouthed the words throughout, while Depp remained stone-faced with a guitar in his lap, finally playing the song’s closing chords.
    — Scott Huver, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Both were stone-faced when the jury’s verdicts were read, but afterward Rivera walked over to Nuhfer and gave her a hug at the defense table.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
  • As the others grinned and grimaced at their rivals’ responses, Becerra was as stone-faced as Buster Keaton.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Recently, after a bad defeat, my happy-go-lucky son, Peter, ambled over to another player, who was stone-faced with frustration and shame.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
  • Sitting stone-faced in the audience, Chalamet couldn’t help seeming more princely and entitled by comparison.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Probably not Joe, who hasn’t got the dough Carollo sat stone-faced next to attorney Marc Sarnoff before leaving court without comment.
    — Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Although the Marshallese players were mostly stone-faced, their eyes—briefly flitting over to the crowd and the many cameras that followed them onto the field—belied both their excitement and anxiety at the gravity of the moment.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Stephen McCullagh sat stone-faced in Ireland’s Belfast Crown Court as a judge on Wednesday ordered him to spend a minimum of 31 years in prison for the slaying of Natalie McNally, the Guardian reported.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 3 June 2026
  • Kansas basketball coach Bill Self, who often remains stone-faced on the bench during games, actually appeared to be outwardly enjoying himself during a 27-7 run that put an exclamation point on the Jayhawks’ 86-62 victory over Kansas State on Saturday night at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2026

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