How To Use Winking In A Sentence

It was almost like my old dad was winking at me to help me notice him.
Such winkingly ostentatious nastiness and Mr. Pollock's habit of telegraphing violence rather than lingering over it make this violent book surprisingly easy to read and digest. The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
These recordings are museum pieces, pulled up from the sticky earth, their crazy-diamond shine still winking through the clay after thirty years
A strong smell of disinfectant was hanging in the air, and fruit machines were winking sinisterly in semi-darkness.
In the map room we would have been moving along as an effortless winking of beaded lights. Times, Sunday Times

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If she was doing it "winkingly" how can we ever know when she's not "winking"? New Hillary Ad: "A Nation At War"
I can still see him, just, brake lights winking as he catches up with a line of cars ahead.
After a few minutes I saw a green light winking languorously at me, and realised that his main computer was on sleep mode.
The husky voice, the delivery, the winking humor, and the sly references to acting conventions gone by all suggested a bona-fide artiste, not just a painted gorgon.
Six of the turrets swiveled up to face it, and a person with sharp eyes or a ship with sharp sensors would notice tiny red lights winking on and off around the turrets.
Fabulous play on the edge of the Benfica area, hoodwinking Luisao with a delicious stepover and trying to slide the ball in between Artur's legs. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Anyhow there were the peasants, men and women, boys and young maidens, toiling and swinking; some hoeing between the vine-rows, some bearing baskets of dung up the steep slopes, some in one way, some in another, labouring for the fruit they should never eat, and the wine they should never drink. A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause. VIII. English Traits. Character
Her blond ringlets were piled high up on her head, and winking atop her hairdo was a rhinestone tiara. A Dollar Short
Draw a little closer, and you can see daylight winking through.
They now hope to break world records for playing tiddlywinks and for ‘winking’ a mile in the fastest time.
Sure, the track picks up a new tone: sass and swagger, winking and wiggling.
The public response to her crime, a sort of winking approval, was matched by the lightness of her punishment.
Though a relatively recent convert to card playing, Vincent has mastered all the tokens required, winking, nodding, tongue twists and body gyrations.
It was of the same color and material as the robe she wore previously, and the gold chain still dangled at her waist, diamonds winking and shining brighter than ever.
I'm not saying that Bill and Hill or their surrogates are actively "agitating" in this direction (so Clinton folks, don't get your undies in a bunch); but there seems to be a growing statistical basis for the winking suggestion (should anyone wish to make it) that Obama is "little more" than Jesse Jackson on steroids. Rasmussen: Obama Ahead By 14 In Racially-Polarized Mississippi Primary
A strong smell of disinfectant was hanging in the air, and fruit machines were winking sinisterly in semi-darkness.
Common-wealth wee further charge and command by the vertue of our absolute authority, that no man bee found winking, or pincking, or nodding, much lesse snorting, upon paine of forfaiting twelve pence, as for infirmity. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
But hoodwinking the public on scientific and technological subjects is not difficult.
Soprano Emily Albrink's pert, pearl-toned Susanna may have been the liveliest, most affectionately detailed performance of the evening, but the coltish Cherubino of mezzo Brandy Lynn Hawkins, the amusingly frowzy Marcellina of mezzo Cynthia Hanna and the winkingly flamboyant turn by tenor Jesús Daniel Hernandez as Basilio all made fine impressions. In performance: WNO's young artists in "Nozze"
When I stared down into it, it returned an unwinking reflection of my own eye.
‘Not pure, but poor,’ she riposted, winking at him.
He clenched his teeth and set an unwinking snake stare on the guest.
The streetlights and buildings pass me by in a solemn procession winking with fading lights.
Ah yes, there he was, in his dashing shade of azure, heightened by his tan, winking from the wall.
We waited till they came up, but there was no stopping; the forker went by without winking or noticing the grey in the slightest manner. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
The stars were winking in the clear sky.
I think it's kind of rakish--looks like he's winking. What I cooked last night.
No, no, not quite all, said Pleydell, winking sagaciously; there are some interrogatories which I shall delay till to-morrow, for it is time, I believe, to close the sederunt for this night, or rather morning. Chapter L
Often college religious organisations avoid conflict by operating off-campus, or by simply winking at campus rules.
But the rat-trap mouth was still the same, and that unwinking half-blue half-brown eye boring into me. Fiancée
Greater than even this is his merit, if he at the same time pays attention to mindfulness, and remains unwinkingly vigilant.
First, a hilariously winking "backrub" scene from the original -Towleroad News- [#gay]
These by frequent nictitation are diffused over the whole ball, and as the external angle of the eye in winking is closed sooner than the internal angle, the tears are gradually driven forwards, and downwards from the lacrymal gland to the puncta lacrymalia. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
The aircraft were beginning to come in low, lights winking, increasing the pressure of her headache. THE LAST RAVEN
My wife and girls fell instantly into dreams while I navigated a causeway suspended between an indigo sky and the sable sea, two voluptuous bodies winking at each other like old lovers.
I can feel the heft of the laryngoscope in one hand, visualize the passage of my ET tube past the winking cords. Between Expectations
Often we are grateful for any little crumb that befalls us: some coded glance, some double entendre remark, some hinty, winking reference.
Two marker posts with winking lights had appeared on the horizon, and the bus was steering between them.
Then the orchestra strikes up the song currently associated with the star who, blushing faintly, glides swanlike to her table, skin dazzling, diamonds winking, profile at the proper tilt. Lobster Palace Society | Edwardian Promenade
Surely there's a better way forward than hoodwinking the public?
The revision is utterly meaningless and one can only hope it is as transparently meaningless to the decent citizens of the republic as it is to the racists at whom the governor is winking. Apology not accepted, lawmaker says of McDonnell
But way, for a blind bottle-head, did not ye ask the guineas? and I kept winking and nodding a the time, and the donnert deevil wad never ance look my way! Chapter XLIV
And he was an ensample to young men which should be fain, by hard swinking, to stuff their pates with as much high learning and occult lore as he had under his own bonnet. The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909
As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
The surge had caused something to power on in the craft, and a tiny blue light was winking on and off.
The size and age of the expanding Universe is calculated by astronomers on the basis of winking stars called cepheids, the nearest of which is 1000-2000 light years away.
There's winking, strutting, flitting and flirting, pecks on the cheek and pinches on the bum.
I genuflected before the winking sanctuary lamp and concealed myself in one of the side chapels.
To misuse or break the rules of winking is to produce misunderstanding, puzzlement, complaint, or some other social reaction.
Later on, outside, after winking at me (the man looked good in a coat and scarf [hey, with boys, is it called a muffler?], people) Ward quoted the "Stonehenge" speech to me from "Spinal Tap" because of my cape. Anne-jumps Diary Entry
These new automatic telephones, which are said to make the business of getting a number so easy, will mean (we suppose) that we will be called up fifty times a day -- instead of (as now) a mere twenty or thirty, while we are swooning and swinking over a sonnet. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
If the individual does not speak out against untouchability, it means he is winking at its practice.
The car in front is winking it's going to turn right.
Her line breaks are uniquely hers, beautifully jolting without any winking self-congratulation.
Cease, prayce, storywalkering around with gestare romano-verum he swinking about is they think and plan unrawil what. Finnegans Wake
Through sleepless nights, Lady Ogram brooded over the contrast between her own exaltation and the hopeless level of the swinking multitude. Our Friend the Charlatan
The sight of an Austin Metro powering down the road at 15 mph with its indicator winking mockingly at the 30 cars queuing up behind is guaranteed to set the blood boiling.
In a few seconds he was high enough to enjoy a panoramic vista of city lights winking below.
The reputation of the school as a respected fine arts education centre was at stake in this winking nod towards a frolicsome counter-hegemonic look at arts and amusement in Banff.
Then, winking to show that she was joking, she plunged back into the crowd.
Jones made his fortune as a hip-swinging, winkingly louche purveyor of lounge pop in its purest, giddiest forms. Album review: Tom Jones, "Praise & Blame"
They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius's blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the "winking Virgin," to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause. English Traits (1856)
Bart: Yeah, Blowing you kisses and winking her eye.
So the movements that it makes and the signals that it gives are often nodding and winking within that language system. Times, Sunday Times
I woke at dawn to the sun winking through the window of my room.
I saw it now, a dull orange will-o'-the-wisp bobbing and winking through the trees.
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Al Checchi: God Give Us Men
The one constant is Mary, who in her fluttery, birdlike way - and through the distorting lens of a perpetually full wine glass - shows a weakness for disastrously misreading casual kindness and winking jokes. Somewhere between settled and unsettling
Harmless jokes or jocular winking at the workplace can lead to activation of such guidelines.
In terms of thematic scope, narrative complexity and unwinking bleakness, both its ambition and its achievement were extraordinary. Archive 2009-09-01
At dinner she maintained her watch, with the same unwinking eyes. David Copperfield
But why, for a blind bottle-head, did not ye ask the guineas? and I kept winking and nodding a 'the time, and the donnert deevil wad never ance look my way!' Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete
The stars twinkled back, winking and flickering.
They accuse stem cell research traditionalists of hoodwinking the public by promising cures they cannot deliver.
In the map room we would have been moving along as an effortless winking of beaded lights. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Smith is a regular scholar , and can sum up like winking.
He was a nondescript fellow, in his shabby suit, but with an eye bright and unwinking as a bird's questing over me and missing nothing, and while he wasn't above middle height I guessed that anyone who ran into him would come away bruised. THE NUMBERS
As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
If a man takes an interest in our work, we can't help but think about the male superior who advised "using our sexuality" to get ahead, or the manager who winkingly asked one of us, apropos of nothing, to "bake me cookies. Are We There Yet?
The loss, he explains unwinkingly, was outrageous: ‘It was merely because we were so shockingly superior that we were inevitably shockingly overconfident.’
The Spectre, without stirring, and with its unwinking, cruel eyes still fixed upon his face, went on: The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
He had an atrabiliar complexion, dark hair, and large, dark eyes that looked forth from behind spectacles with a steady, unwinking gaze. Anthony Burns : a history,
Her smooth, pink-and-white cheeks and unwinking eyes contrasted vividly with his seamed yellowness and blinking grin; for a long time he coquetted at her, and played peep-bo, without disturbing her gravity, making humorous side comments to the on-lookers meanwhile. Hawthorne and His Circle
‘Good girl,’ said Ray, winking, patting her none too gently on the head.
So the movements that it makes and the signals that it gives are often nodding and winking within that language system. Times, Sunday Times
So the movements that it makes and the signals that it gives are often nodding and winking within that language system. Times, Sunday Times
So the shopkeeper is smiling and winking and turning on all his charm and I cannot find a door (and how telling that this Rush fan wasn't perceptive enough to realize I was constantly moving in order to escape?). Rush Limbaugh tries to horn in on my vacation
Harley teased while winking receiving a swat in return.
This whimsey, folksey, eyewinking burst of banter; a bold fresh piece of Republican talking points tagger. Early Snap Polls: Biden Won Handily
Editors, meanwhile, began routinely winking at copy containing unfounded speculation, rumor, and unchecked facts.
A retreat into a redemptive enclave of winkingly open-minded post-Marxist scamps, it's nearly pristine in its high-minded tomfoolery.
Perched on an exposed bough overhanging the water, he gazes unwinkingly at the water below.
In this summer's sequel, Iron Man 2, Downey takes unwinking self-consciousness to heights where he can be visited only by Bill Murray. The Brainy Blockbuster
After winkingly reading a single lifted-from-the-headlines monologue joke, Conan quickly introduced his first guest, star of "The Big Bang Theory" Jim Parsons. Conan O'Brien's 'Show Zero': Host Performs The 'Fastest Talk Show Ever' Online (VIDEO)
It is the renowned Monsieur Des Cartes, whose lustre far outshines the aged winking tapers of Peripatetic Philosophy, and has eclipsed the stagyrite, with all the ancient lights of Greece and Rome. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
So the movements that it makes and the signals that it gives are often nodding and winking within that language system. Times, Sunday Times
The girls know how to switch gears, though, and give a sweet, slowed-down performance on Dream Boy, a jive-tastic bopper on Mr Lee and a winking slinkathon on Three Cool Chicks.
He held out a ring to her, elegant in its simplicity, with a single teardrop diamond winking at them from under the lights.
It arched up, winking in the sun, and fell pointing straight at the leftward of the two low and broken peaks. A TIME OF WAR
This illuminates the scene and pins humanity, as upon a dissecting table, under the unwinking light of an unshaded bulb.
“Whereby the widdy never pressed me for rint when not convanient,” as he remarked afterwards to Pen, winking knowingly, and laying a finger on his nose. The History of Pendennis
Reznor walks me into what he calls his "adult playpen of knob-twiddling": a small garage converted into an Aladdin's cave of instruments, mixing desks and synthesizer modules, their lights winking in the dark. Trent Reznor: 'I'm not at war with myself as I once was'
They were great gleaming disks that stared unwinkingly, luminous, whitish, and without a hint of normal emotion or sanity.
I thought they never looked so handsome before; and close by them were the sharking priests, and not far from them was that idiotical parson Platitude, winking and grinning, and occasionally lifting up his hands as if in ecstasy at what he saw and heard, so that he drew upon himself the notice of the congregation. Lavengro
You and your class will not spend a merry hour when these words are turned into deeds and Peter the Plowman grows weary of swinking in the fields and takes up his bow and his staff in order to set this land in order. Sir Nigel
And practically everyone—male and female—wore some small bauble that weighed in at several carats, whether it was a diamond choker or a ruby cufflink slyly winking from the end of a tuxedo sleeve. Venom
I don't get the guy - I mean just yesterday he totally blanked me but now he's winking at me.
Any party that claims it's not necessary is hoodwinking voters.
It presents them as winking ironists, not the true black-music believers that they were.
And as she sailed upriver, she became the first Royal Navy warship to pass under the new Millennium Bridge - the ‘winking eye’.
It watched her, unwinking, until she reached the room behind the shop and shut the door on its crimson gaze.
I bet you're accustomed to finer vehicles," he added, winking. WEB OF DREAMS
The only light inside came from a flickering computer screen and the winking of a fax machine.
But the rat-trap mouth was still the same, and that unwinking half-blue half-brown eye boring into me. Fiancée
It was light cotton, pink with tiny winking white flowers allover it and though the pink was a sort of faded pink, it was still bright and new. Go to Jesus
Then quoth I to myself, ‘Now is my opportunity,’ and taking a knife I had with me, that would cut bones before flesh,432 went down to them and found them motionless, not a muscle of them moving for their hard swinking and swiving. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Its THE NIGHT FACE screen grew black and full of wintry unwinking stars. Do you ever read writing?
Along the arboured road from Cairo, flashed motor-car after motor-car, their lights winking in and out between the dark trees, now blazing, now invisible, their occupants all intent on doing the right thing: dining at Mena House, and seeing the full moon feed honey to the Sphinx. It Happened in Egypt
And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix then in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously. Ulysses
But the unwinking stereo-eyes of the autopilot fed its data to the 'brain'; the submolar mechanism selected and rejected; the Ship grounded gently on a rolling high prairie near a clump of vegetation. Destiny Narrowly Avoided
To misuse or break the rules of winking is to produce misunderstanding, puzzlement, complaint, or some other social reaction.
Either she was serious about these two measures or she was doing "winkingly". New Hillary Ad: "A Nation At War"
Mr Baptist, never taking his eyes from his dreaded chum of old, softly sat down on the floor with his back against the door and one of his ankles in each hand: resuming the attitude (except that it was now expressive of unwinking watchfulness) in which he had sat before the same man in the deeper shade of another prison, one hot morning at Marseilles. Little Dorrit
With the neon sign winking against a twilit sky and bench seats arranged in booths with retro chrome fittings all over the shop, the ambience is undoubtedly that of the mid-West where the all roads are blacktops and the eggs over easy.
Soprano Emily Albrink's pert, pearl-toned Susanna may have been the liveliest, most affectionately detailed performance of the evening, but the coltish Cherubino of mezzo Brandy Lynn Hawkins, the amusingly frowzy Marcellina of mezzo Cynthia Hanna and the winkingly flamboyant turn by tenor Jesús Daniel Hernandez as Basilio all made fine impressions. In performance: WNO's young artists in "Nozze"
One is to be performed with a black curtain across the proscenium arch with holes cut in it so that the actors can shout their lines unwinkingly at the audience.
‘We're attention gluttons,’ he commented, winking.
"And among them," he adds, winking slyly, "is an author familiar to you both."
Jones made his fortune as a hip-swinging, winkingly louche purveyor of lounge pop in its purest, giddiest forms. Album review: Tom Jones, "Praise & Blame"
China, dine contentedly upon horse-steak in Paris, swallow their beef uncooked in Germany, maintain an unwinking gravity over the hottest curry in India, smoke their hookah gratefully in Turkey, mount an elephant in Ceylon, and, in short, conform gracefully to any native custom, however strange it may appear to him. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.
I move among the aisles and walkways, which are a scented, winking, shimmering, crooning riot of Christmas.
What's interesting is not that this attribution is wrong, but that it's so precisely wrong: that quote embodies the opposite of Twain's acerbic, self-deprecating, winkingly ironic wit. This column will change your life: The wit and wisdom of Mark Twain

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