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Definition of beetling in English: beetlingadjectiveˈbiːtlɪŋ attributive (of a rock or a person's eyebrows) projecting or overhanging. piercing eyes glittered beneath a great beetling brow Example sentencesExamples - If the prime minister is searching for a cause, here it is, in front of his beetling brow most days of the week.
- No beetling precipice, of which she ever heard, had fallen and crushed so much as the sheep feeding in the valleys.
- The beetling cliff falls sheerly to the seething sea beneath.
- The walk up the ramp from Waverley Station reveals on the left the beetling houses and gothic towers of the Old Town, clinging to the sides of the Castle rock.
- The examiner was a Dr Bull, an elderly (or so he seemed to me) anatomy lecturer of rather Victorian appearance, with mutton chop whiskers and beetling eyebrows.
- Beetling brow, well defined nose, thin pursed lips and long ear lobes characterize the face.
- With his massive build, black beetling eyebrows and perma-frown he resembles a pantomime baddie.
- Grain by grain, the vast foundations, the beetling escarpments, the high domes in air are crumbled away and drifted into the valleys.
- Despite the constant messages we all get that women like brawny, beetling browed men covered in muscles, most women can tell you that the musclebound weightlifter isn't their style.
- Encouraged by the romantic writers of the nineteenth century, we too find in the life of castle, cathedral, and beetling hilltop towns a poetic refuge from an industrialized world.
- To their (very small, admittedly) credit, they told me what had happened when, with beetling eyebrows and pursed lips, I enquired.
- The house itself is built upon a lot of greensward which runs down amid some great, beetling rocks.
- He thinks that Gaulish skulls were round, with beetling brows.
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