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UK
/smˈaɪl/
]
[ US /ˈsmaɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsmaɪɫ/ ]
VERB
-
express with a smile
She smiled her thanks - change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
NOUN
- a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
How To Use smile In A Sentence
- Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
- But King George's smile was a bit awry tonight.
- I still see Mr. Berman's portable shtender in the shul and I have to smile because I immediately see his warm gentle smile and think about how fortunate I was to have met your father.
- I expected him to smile in response but he glowered at me.
- It was a smile Elizabeth had never seen on her husband's face before; one so full of love and tenderness that her heart melted.
- I would like weeping with the smile rather than repenting with the cry,when my heart is broken ,is it needed to fix?
- He was still very young, especially by Drow standards, but his smile had given way to an expression of restraint, and his little arms and legs had grown long and thick.
- Manning turned slowly, a fallacious smile on his lips, his eyes hard. CORMORANT
- She felt a burden lifting off her shoulders and smiled at the carefree feeling that permeated her senses.
- We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875