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
• In camo at least, the treatment gives the new nose a mildly Mustang mien.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2017
• Woltz was an Eagle Scout, which, in a way, remains his mien.
  — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
• The veteran’s mien that Sanchez displays does not desert him in the batter’s box.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2016
• 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 mien of the Frost Giants was reflective of their symbolic role in the Norse cosmogony.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2013
• 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
• 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 Durango’s exhaust sounds tough, and a stiff ride and firm brakes complete its truckish mien.
  — Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver, 13 July 2017
• Bolton has a famously hawkish mien, and a very dim and oft-stated view of the North Koreans’ honesty and the prospects for peace.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 4 May 2018
• His younger, thinner brother, David, had a more serious mien and spoke less.
  — Lou Weiss, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
• The plant tends to bloom just before Halloween in keeping with its menacing mien.
  — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
• 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
• After eight years of aggressive third-wave-feminist virtue signaling, the White House has adopted the mien of the alt-right.
  — Tiana Lowe, National Review, 7 Aug. 2017
• View 19 Photos This might matter less if the TourX had a decidedly sportier mien.
  — James Lipman, Car and Driver, 19 Mar. 2018
• Fights and robberies in the shelter were not uncommon, but Mr. Chin managed to deflect attention with a tough-guy mien.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2022
• Nora’s sugar-sparkled mien reflects her clear and combative sense of what women are up against.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Made from mung bean starch, glass noodles are also referred to as mien or cellophane noodles.
  — Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Players all maintained a noble mien, but gave each phrase a life elaborately shaped.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Their rabbi, Samuel Rosenblatt, had a scholarly mien and a formal manner.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Keeping with Finn's own mien, the record's 12 songs are delightful, quirky, cool, and occasionally dark.
  — Katherine Turman, EW.com, 1 June 2021
• 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
• Carson’s response to Schatz somehow managed to be both his most substantive of the day and the one that best distilled his daylong mien of a student fumbling through an oral exam.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 12 Jan. 2017
• Unlike hearing Cher toy with the kitsch of electronic modernism until making it her mien, Dion simply sounds robotic and dull.
  — A.d. Amorosi, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Victor has the mien of David Foster Wallace, with a lightning intelligence that lingers beneath a patina of aw-shucks shyness.
  — James Somers, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017

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