How To Use Wink at In A Sentence
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James would only wink at him, a secretive smile gracing his handsome features…
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With a wink at Joe, he flicked the reins urging the team of horses forward.
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“What name shall I enounce?” says he, with a wink at
Mrs. Perkins's Ball
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Chapter One ended with Mr. Tattoo breathing into a paper bag and Evelyn Wood-ing through his book, not just because Nunzio had walked in ... the owner of the "wronged" construction site whose neck is wider than his head ... but because some guy over in Gothic Romance happened to wink at him.
The Tattooed Attorney
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One hand, between the pickets, seemed waving at her, and almost he seemed to wink at her jocosely, though she knew it to be the contortion of deadly pain.
CHAPTER IX
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Waal," Pete had rejoined, with a portentous wink at the boys, "you never kin tell in this wale of tears what you're a-goin 'up aginst -- queer shapes, fer instance.
The Border Boys Across the Frontier
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Certain Israelite money-lenders, who hated him because he would not wink at their sweating and extortions, saw in this an opportunity to overthrow him; so they reported to some leading Jews in England that he had tortured the boys, whom he had not, in point of fact, punished in any way beyond reproving them.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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The conflict is keen at first; the Church authorities fight tooth and nail against these relics of heathenism, these devilish rites; but mankind's instinctive paganism is insuppressible, the practices continue as ritual, though losing much of their meaning, and the Church, weary of denouncing, comes to wink at them, while the pagan joy in earthly life begins to colour her own festival.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
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The newspaper warned its readers not ‘to wink at such excesses, merely because they occur at a season of festivity.’
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I like to see them wink at a glass of claret, as if they had an intimate acquaintance with it, and discuss a salmi — poor boys — it is only when they grow old that they know they know nothing of the science, when perhaps their conscience whispers them that the science is in itself little worth, and that a leg of mutton and content is as good as the dinners of pontiffs.
The History of Pendennis
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One hand, between the pickets, seemed waving at her, and almost he seemed to wink at her jocosely, though she knew it to be the contortion of deadly pain.
CHAPTER IX
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Then, any time the person looks at you after that, smile knowingly or wink at them.
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Who can stare the dragon of human despair in the face, which is so miasmically present in the subconscious of mankind, and wink at it?
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But several very coaly-looking men, who could scarcely be taught to keep silence, observed that the magistrate smiled once or twice; and this made them wait a bit, and wink at one another.
Mary Anerley
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We wink at all this, and yet like to pretend that we are respectable.