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    deadpan example sentences

    deadpan


    deadpanned


    1. ’ I replied with as deadpan a face as I can manage … making her laugh


    2. I kept my face deadpan for a moment as I sipped at my now lukewarm tea, but I could not hold the pose


    3. “Oh no! You realize we don’t have insurance?” she said in such a deadpan way that he wasn’t aware she was joking till she started laughing


    4. “Oh,” I said, numbed by her deadpan presentation, and I turned away from her


    5. Obama, dour, deadpan, and soulless, with an arrogant tilt of the head, a great orator? Is stroking with soothing words those whose wonderful country he intends to drag down into sociofascist poverty quite the same thing? Is a wigwagging mist of rhetoric, soaring from alternate TelePrompTers, if seemingly enticing upon emission, but vaporizing when pursued for substance, great oratory? There must be another word for it


    6. The deadpan look in his eyes startled her


    7. “Knives,” he finally said, deadpan


    8. "Quite fetching, Miss," he replied deadpan


    9. "Got a big hat with a feather?" he asked, deadpan


    10. deadpan manner in which the puns are delivered

    11. You should be,” she said deadpan


    12. ” Said Laplante, deadpan


    13. ” Said Stimson, deadpan


    14. ” Said Vance, deadpan


    15. ’ She’d seen a movie, deadpan melodrama, that‘s the most


    16. She imitated the deadpan tone, smiling: ‘Fine


    17. character from the movie Matrix with a deadpan look on his


    18. Paul seemed to have a deadpan look on his face


    19. Both of his parents had deadpan looks on their faces


    20. Correct?” the man said, looking deadpan into the teen’s eyes

    21. About a millisecond later, when James moved the sheet a couple of feet downward, everyone present could see Paul’s lifeless dark-brown eyes staring deadpan at the ceiling above and that his cheeks had already begun to turn various shades of bluish-green


    22. Get excited! Get expressive! Break out of just that deadpan


    23. ” Hunter told Sophie, with a commendably deadpan expression


    24. Stripehead fixed them with a deadpan stare, and said, ‘Fuck off


    25. Graham had the perfect deadpan face


    26. Danny stared at him deadpan


    27. She was completely serious, and almost unblinking in the deadpan stare she gave him


    28. when mum answered the door, looked down at the road cones and said with a completely deadpan face: And I see you two haven't changed much either


    29. “It does not happen to lots of guys,” said Victor, deadpan


    30. He responses to Rose’s questions were worse than deadpan, worse than listless, worse than unenthusiastic

    31. The woman looked at him with a deadpan expression


    32. On the balcony next door, Al Ulbrickson, the Deadpan Kid, stood motionless, expressionless, a cigarette in his mouth


    33. ‘Shelves,’ he said, deadpan


    34. The cabbie’s expression in the rearview was deadpan


    35. “If you must know,” I replied, deadpan, “for the past six months I’ve been having this torrid affair with Warren Jacobi


    36. “Of course,” says Amin with a practiced deadpan


    37. He looked up at me with his usual deadpan look


    38. “I service the copiers at the embassy,” he said, deadpan


    39. His name was included on the invitation, and when I glanced up at him, a smile flickered across his lips before he said with deadpan solemnity, “Unfortunately, I have a feeling I will be quite ill that evening and will have to send Flora and Rollo with my regrets


    1. “Don’t be a booby, Sheriff,” deadpanned the child with surprising earnestness


    2. ” Again he deadpanned them


    3. “We find that the newsletters fail to offer advice consistent with market timing,” the authors deadpanned as only academics can


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    Synonyms for "deadpan"

    deadpan expressionless impassive poker-faced unexpressive

    "deadpan" definitions

    deliberately impassive in manner


    without betraying any feeling