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Mouth, teeth, nose

and ears

SECTION 1 – MOUTH

WORDS

Adjectives Narrow, thin, tight

Wide, thick, full, fleshy, flabby, plump, big-lipped
Wrinkled, dry, flaking, drooping
Beaming, excited, impish
Stern, menacing, sneering, reptilian
Verbs Rose, curved
Pressed, pursed, pinched, puckered

PHRASES – NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

 Wide, full mouth

 Wide mouth and thick lips
 Tiny rosebud mouth
 Narrow mouth and thin, pursed lips
 Wrinkled, puckered mouth
 Plump lips
 Thick, fleshy, drooping lips
 Thin, stern lips
 Dry, flaking lips
 Pinched lips
 Reptilian smirk
 Impish grin
 Excited grin
 Beaming smile

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PHRASES – VERBS

 Rose in a perfect curve

 Curved upwards into a wide, beaming smile
 Pressed into a tight, thin line
 Stuck in a sneering smile
 Stuck in a permanent pucker
 Turned down at the corners in a permanent sulk

SENTENCES

She had a tiny rosebud mouth.

Her mouth and plump lips rose in a perfect curve.
He was big-lipped and gap-toothed.
Her lips were pale and pressed into a tight, thin line.
Saliva dribbled onto his chin from his limp, drooping lip.
He had a wide, full mouth that seemed stuck in a sneering smile.
Her lips looked like they had been blown up by a bicycle pump and stuck in a permanent
pucker.
She had a wide mouth and thick lips, which curved upwards into a broad, beaming smile.

SECTION 2 – TEETH

WORDS

Nouns Molars, fangs, stumps, tombstones, false teeth, pearls

Adjectives Toothless, gap-toothed
Straight, crooked, jagged
Rotting, crumbling
White, brown, yellow, grey, gold-capped
Sparkling, polished, stained
Verbs Chipped, jutted, protruded

PHRASES – NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

 Teeth like polished pearls

 Great sheet of white, polished teeth
 Toothless smile
 Two jagged rows of rotting, brown teeth
 Like crumbling tombstones
 Stained, chipped teeth
 Mouth full of yellow teeth
 Crooked teeth and cracked, flaky lips
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PHRASES – VERBS

 Jutted out like fangs

 Chipped diagonally in half
 Worn to yellowing stumps
 Clicked when she moved her lips
 Curved down over his lower lip
 Teeth bared in a reptilian leer

SENTENCES

Her teeth were like polished pearls.

He had a great sheet of polished, white teeth and a warm smile.
Her false teeth clicked when she moved her lips.
A gold-capped molar glinted when he opened his mouth.
His teeth jutted out like fangs and curved down over his lower lip.
His teeth had worn away into yellowing stumps that looked like crumbling tombstones.
Behind the thick fleshy lips, she could see his stained and crooked teeth.
When he snarled, he revealed two jagged rows of brown, rotting teeth.

SECTION 3 – NOSE

WORDS

Nouns Nose, nostrils, freckles, veins, hairs

Boxer, hawk, eagle
Adjectives Large, small, long, short
Thin, narrow, wide, broad
Straight, flattened, pointed, curved, turned up, hooked, broken,
crooked
Pug, button, snub, triangle, beak-like
Verbs Covered, spread, stretched
Flared, pinched

PHRASES – NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

 Small pug nose

 Tiny, triangular nose
 Long, narrow and pointed
 Thick and broad
 Large, hooked nose
 Broken nose

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 Crooked nose
 Flattened nose of a boxer
 Perfectly straight
 Large bulbous nose
 Narrow pinched nostrils
 Wide flared nostrils
 Thick tufts of sprouting hair

PHRASES – VERBS

 Covered in swollen red veins

 Covered in freckles
 Sprouted from his nostrils
 Spread across his cheek
 Made him look stern and arrogant
 Flared with every breath

SENTENCES

He had the flattened nose of a boxer.

Her small, upturned nose was covered in freckles.
She was a petite woman with a thin, perfectly straight nose.
His eagle beak of a nose made him look stern and arrogant.
His wide nostrils flared with every breath like an angry bull.
His bulbous nose was covered in swollen red veins and had clumps of dark wiry hair
sprouting from the nostrils.
He had a thin, scarred face and a nose that had been broken so many times it seemed to
spreading across his right cheek.
He looked at them over his glasses, which were perched on the end of his large, hooked
nose.
She glanced down at him over her narrow pinched nostrils, as if he was a nasty smell
under her nose.

SECTION 4 – EARS

WORDS

Nouns Cauliflower, cabbage, bat, basset hound, satellite dish

Earlobes, earrings
Adjectives Big, large, huge, enormous, small, tiny
Droopy, dangling, prominent, protruding
Verbs Jutted, stretched, veined

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PHRASES – NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

 Big, droopy ears

 Huge cauliflower ears
 Like a basset hound
 Like mini satellite dishes
 Small, bat-like ears
 Enormous, heavy, dangling earrings

PHRASES – VERBS

 Jutted out on either side of his head

 Attached to his head
 Veined like a cabbage leaf
 Earlobes stretched into long, narrow ovals

SENTENCES

His huge, cauliflower ears jutted out on either side of his head.
His ears were large and veined like a cabbage leaf.
Her earlobes were stretched into long narrow ovals by enormous, dangling earrings.
His ears were so big it looked like he had two mini satellite dishes attached to either side
of his head.

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