How To Use Winsome In A Sentence
-
He slid those dark eyes toward her, full of winsome appeal.
-
Not for them your rustic kitchens and winsome acoustic soundtracks.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Close against them and overpeering their tops were hollyhocks and dahlias; against these stood at lesser height sweet peas, asters, zinnias, coreopsis and others of like stature; in front of these were poppies for summer, marigolds for autumn; beneath these again were verbenas, candytuft -- all this is sketched from memory, and I recall the winsome effect rather than species and names; and still below nestled portulaca and periwinkle.
The Amateur Garden
-
A hundred years before Bushnell gave his speech, New England gifts were embroidering frolicking lambs and winsome shepherdesses on needlework pictures and samplers.
-
Her never-ending winsomeness seems to ignore the world around her, and the film never calls her bluff.
-
Created and written by comedians Ruth Jones and James Corden, the show follows the title couple, played by the winsome Joanna Page and the just-handsome-enough Mathew Horne.
"Gavin & Stacey": Catch BBC America's Latest, Sweetest Sitcom before It Gets the NBC Makeover
-
None of it is fatal, but it's neither particularly winsome nor witty.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Lengthy bonding scenes follow in which, inevitably, the hardened, world-weary, cynical bodyguard learns to love the winsome little blonde.
-
Instead, it piles on the daffiness and winsomeness to such an extent that you keep thinking this trio must have trained at the Bridget Jones school of clowning.
-
None of it is fatal, but it's neither particularly winsome nor witty.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Not for them your rustic kitchens and winsome acoustic soundtracks.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The one, Juliana, the only daughter of a retired sea-captain, he described as a winsome lassie.
Novel Notes
-
‘Because he will give me alms,’ the boy said winsomely.
-
Their winsome smiles and charming looks lit up the place, setting hearts aflutter.
-
Malice and heartburning were out of the question with a lissom, winsome, witching fairy like this, who played with her life as a child does with soap-bubbles, and who was as elusory and irresponsible as a summer-day rainbow.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
-
He liked his "winsome" quality, and the fact that he seemed knowledgeable about everything from paper-making techniques to the latest legislation on gay marriage.
NYT > Home Page
-
The charm, the good looks, the winsome smile?
Times, Sunday Times
-
Winsome tutued ballerinas and fairytale productions are not the answer, he says.
Times, Sunday Times
-
His winsome hangers-on leant credence to his kingly claims.
-
She was a winsome creature.
-
Yet there is almost a winsomeness in that testiness.
-
Whilst I rarely shed a tear at gigs - in so far as I go to gigs anymore - once I get home and put on an album by some winsome folkie gently strumming their acoustic guitar, the waterworks aren't far behind.
-
Instead it has always been sentimental, nostalgic and a little bit winsome.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Humans, especially females, are likewise evolutionarily wired to respond in a nurturing way to faces that have a quality of neoteny, which is to say, the retention of infantile characteristics: large head, wide and prominent eyes, slightly helpless and winsome.
For the Cheerleader in Everyone
-
His winsome chit-chat further endeared these die-hards as he recounted one hilarious story after another.
-
Instead it has always been sentimental, nostalgic and a little bit winsome.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Maria brought along her eldest daughter - a winsome lass with brown eyes and a ready smile.
-
Generally he found Winsome busy with her household affairs, sometimes with her sleeves buckled above her elbows, rolling the tough dough for the crumpy farles of the oat-cake, and scattering handfuls of dry meal over it with deft fingers to bring the mass to its proper consistency for rolling out upon the bake-board.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
-
A very fine soundtrack shifts from a winsome romanticism in the early moments to the jarring untuned piano notes in the latter fraught stages.
-
Named for a failed uprising in 19th-century Russia, the group has made intricate, winsome, at times tediously proggy music that extrapolates on source material like "T á in B ó C ú ailnge" an early 12th-century Irish mythological epic and Japanese folk tales.
Dust of the Old, Boot Up the New
-
The problem with Ross going on about it winsomely is that he makes ridiculous the thing he loves.
-
Perhaps the car's unusual looks, which were striking when it was first launched, are no longer as fresh and winsome as they once were.
-
She veers between charmingly flirtatious and excessively winsome, the latter especially when preparing for her deathbed scene.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Suggested that small in domestic reads off in a big way winsomely four, after the undergraduate course graduates, applies for France Conservatory again.
-
It is a furry mammal, with a bark as winsome as any leal and faithful Labrador.
-
It did not disturb her faith in the winsomeness she took for granted being irresistible.
O: A Presidential Novel
-
With his charming looks and winsome manners he soon won admiration from the men and women of Basarke and the villages nearby.
-
It was now abute the gloaming when my ain same Janet (heav'n sain her saul) was sitting sae bieldy in a bit neuk ayant the ingle, while the winsome weans gathering around their minnie were listing till some auld spae wife's tale o 'ghaists and worriecows; when on a sudden some ane tirled at the door pin.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
-
But the supporting players are a winsome bunch.
-
Groups of winsome lads violate the faith of the believers with acts which are sufficient to shake the very roots of piety.
-
Respect for writers joins with the desire to help authors find an audience and present what they have to say as clearly, effectively, and winsomely as possible.
-
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this stage, film an television actress. first won acting acclaim for her winsome performance in the off-Broadway play Summertree (1968) and in the next year won a Best Supporting Actress Tony for her Broadway debut as a free-spirited young divorcee in Butterflies Are Free (1969).
Five People Born on February 3 | myFiveBest
-
His Highness the King loveth thee and hath a daughter, a winsome lady and a lovesome, to whom he is minded to marry thee.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
-
This book is remarkable in that it profoundly challenges church life and personal life so gently and winsomely that the reader is not put off or discouraged by unreachably high ideals.
-
The ecology movement often works best in behalf of winsome landscapes and wildlife.
-
Roused by the sight of one ‘winsome wench’ among the old beldams, Tam shouts to her.
-
Priscilla, or some other winsome and good maiden of the early colonial days, who transplanted to New England this poetic practice, sweet as the fragrant pink and white blossoms of the trailing arbutus, which is especially used to commemorate it.
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir
-
Ordinarily there was a suspicion of hardness in her face but there was also upon occasions a kind of winsomeness, an unexpected peeping out of a personality which was like the wraith of the child which she once had been -- a suggestion of girlish charm and spontaneity utterly unlike her usual self.
The Lady Doc
-
The bower becomes significant, then, as the externalization of this internal, unreachable environment where any kind of reverie is possible; for Kitty, under constant surveillance, the bower represents a winsome retreat that "possessed such a charm over her senses, as constantly to tranquillize her mind and quiet her spirits," a place which she believed "alone could restore her to herself" (193).
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
-
Sam — sometimes I think it has a really pernicious undercurrent: not that winsomeness is the only behavior the authors can conceive of, but that it’s the only positive one.
The problem of the Childlike Empress at SF Novelists
-
The ecology movement often works best in behalf of winsome landscapes and wildlife.
-
She had about her that charm of manner which can only be described as winsome womanliness.
Prudence of the Parsonage
-
He had bright eyes, a lively expression, and a winsome smile.
-
We had some people in the drawing room, and Miss Dog was squiggling about on the floor being winsome.
-
None of it is fatal, but it's neither particularly winsome nor witty.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Its cover, on which the winsome title flows in cursive across the pale chest of a red-lipped woman, was presumably deemed female-friendly, though it only made me want to hide the book on the bus.
All the Hopeful Lovers by William Nicholson - review
-
The accompanying text celebrates her virtue and health in typically winsome and florid language.
-
All of 11 years old, Nikosi comes across by turn as wise, winsome, overburdened, and sometimes desolate.
-
Lengthy bonding scenes follow in which, inevitably, the hardened, world-weary, cynical bodyguard learns to love the winsome little blonde.
-
As are the ruins of their monasteries and hermitages (apart from a crumbling monastery tower, and a winsome Welsh chapel).
-
Some artists thrive on winsome personalities, cunningly distracting listeners from the music with their stylistic excess.
-
He calmly walked up to her a mischievous smile on his winsome face.
-
His smile was charming, and his eyes bright and winsome, and with his aura came an atmosphere of leisure accompanied by a tinge of duress.
-
The blushing bride-to-be had come across as winsome but shy, and - because she seemed to have so little to say for herself - perhaps just a teeny bit dozy.
-
You have a keen sense of humour, are winsome and vivacious, loving and demonstrative in your family.
-
Men are allowed to love in fiction without looking winsome or flashing on the front cover.
Times, Sunday Times
-
‘So says the English guru,’ Troy teased lightly, and he flashed a sudden winsome smile.
-
She slid under and looked at him winsomely, up through the water, lips pursed and cheeks blown full.
-
Their gaily colored flowers resembling miniature ballet dancers in multi-colored tutus will sway and nod winsomely toward you.
-
Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated.
Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
-
However, it was time for formalities, and there were introductions all round, besides words of warm welcome for the winsome star who was her pleasant, confident self, seemingly unruffled by all the attention she was getting.
-
His winsome smile brought a sparkle to his umber eyes and caused his cousin to chuckle.
-
A very fine soundtrack shifts from a winsome romanticism in the early moments to the jarring untuned piano notes in the latter fraught stages.
-
She gracefully, winsomely smiled then said: ‘Care to dance with me, famous explorer?’
-
The fishing vessel ‘Winsome’ reported his find to the Coastguard at quarter past twelve this afternoon.
-
It's a lovely spot, clean, serene, winsome, flowery, and bathed in an almost suptropical warmth.
-
I told him he might bring me down another guest instead of the tailor, and he has brought a poor young pupil teacher, whom Tibbie calls a winsome gallant, but I am afraid she won't save him.
Clever Woman of the Family
-
I yearned for original poems that spoke of undying love inspired by my inner beauty and winsome ways.
Christianity Today
-
They seldom laughed or twinkled and the nose that kept them company was equally sedate, being purely aquiline, but a mouth with dimpled corners upset the scheme entirely, while ripples of golden brown hair completed the picture of a healthy, happy youngster -- not radiantly beautiful but what people like to call "winsome," which is after all as good a word as most.
Across the Mesa
-
This last one in particular wasn't much heeded by the programme's winsome presenter.
-
Hence, some of the lines don't come across as winsome as they might otherwise have appeared.
-
I yearned for original poems that spoke of undying love inspired by my inner beauty and winsome ways.
Christianity Today
-
Canary yellow and bubblegum pink are the winning shades of the season and knee-length strappy dresses and casual linen trouser suits are the winsome styles.
-
This territory is the birthplace of Southworth's latest song cycle, a soulful and finely crafted record that exudes a skewed kind of warmth and charisma, sun-dappled and winsome, era-less and placeless.
-
Obediently Winsome went to her grandmother's bedroom and drew from under the bed the "mutch" box lined with pale green paper, patterned with faded pink roses.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
-
Englishmen and matrons, and thrill societies with their winsome ingenuousness; and who sometimes when unguarded meet an artful serenader, that is a cloaked bandit, and is provoked by their performances, and knows anthropologically the nature behind the devious show; a sciential rascal; as little to be excluded from our modern circles as Eve's own old deuce from Eden's garden whereupon, opportunity inviting, both the fool and the cunning, the pure donkey princess of insular eulogy, and the sham one, are in a perilous pass.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
-
A major departure for a director known for very proper British fare—including "Pride and Prejudice" and "Atonement"—"Hanna" is quite the improper little package, stylish, rich in singular images and one that carries itself with both the bravado of a spy thriller and the winsomeness of a fairy tale.
'Arthur': He Drinks, Movie Falls Down
-
So you have the juvenile lead, who's always nice and happy and winsome, and that's the male and female juvenile lead.
-
But, doubts remain… is he too winsome for his own good?
-
Their gaily colored flowers resembling miniature ballet dancers in multi-colored tutus will sway and nod winsomely toward you.
-
The book describes the winsomely untraditional family surrounding Fern, a college student who takes charge of a friend's newborn son.
-
He has a kind of winsome smile and frequently jogs around the set, running from one side of the lawn to the other, and it doesn't feel like the obnoxiousness of a fidgety adult but the buoyancy of a wide-eyed kid.
The House Next Door
-
He'll flash his diamond ring at me and grin winsomely, call me ‘Guv'nor’ and set a price which will be high but just within the range he can read next to the word MUG on my forehead,.
-
Winsome, plangent arias are teased out with great sensitivity; the snappier, sassier episodes pass by with a cheeky flourish.
Times, Sunday Times
-
A down-tempo chunk of mid-set balladry was chilling and songs like ‘I Will Make U Cry,’ ‘Well, Well’ and ‘Legend’ are both heartfelt and winsome.
-
A true metalsmith, she crafts pieces that are simple but can easily be dressed up for your next luau: the winsome puka shell necklace; the delicate heart-shaped earrings; or the sweet dome rings inlaid with tiny stars.
-
Jen smiled winsomely, ‘But Kate and I were going out together tonight!’
-
This is among a host of questions concisely and winsomely addressed by the Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, in a pastoral letter, ‘You Will Know the Truth and the Truth Will Set You Free.’
-
Men are allowed to love in fiction without looking winsome or flashing on the front cover.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Their winsome smiles and charming looks lit up the place, setting hearts aflutter.
-
Their gaily colored flowers resembling miniature ballet dancers in multi-colored tutus will sway and nod winsomely toward you.
-
For certes it was later than I had bargained and at this late of an hour it was unlikely that I would find a winsome partner.
-
It was now abute the gloaming when my ain same Janet (heav'n sain her saul) was sitting sae bieldy in a bit neuk ayant the ingle, while the winsome weans gathering around their minnie were listing till some auld spae wife's tale o 'ghaists and worriecows; when on a sudden some ane tirled at the door pin.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
-
The sprite in the centre of the balustrade is the most winsome of the company.
Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation
-
Instead it has always been sentimental, nostalgic and a little bit winsome.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Yet such is our winsome God's wondrous plan that skill may come to any one who is willing; simply that -- who is willing; and it comes _very simply_ too.
Quiet Talks on Prayer
-
I yearned for original poems that spoke of undying love inspired by my inner beauty and winsome ways.
Christianity Today
-
‘Good day,’ she said, smiling winsomely.
-
The trio's heavy-footed Krautrock drumbeat was met by a winsome sitar, earning it a place on this compilation of obscurities four decades later.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Rediscovering Legacies in India, Thailand and Indonesia
-
Even he looked quite winsome in sharp, dark clothes and a cape behind him.
-
Nightly she was called back for an encore, winsomely protesting that since she hadn't expected such an ecstatic reception she had nothing prepared and called instead for questions from the audience.
-
Sure, the profile questions were laboured and tricksy, but they either gave way to genuine honesty or exposed pretension; you could just tell when a person was straining to be winsome.
-
They flickered giving just enough light to show Marlin's deep brown eyes in their best show; and Perry's smile at its most winsome.
-
She's a cunning manipulator one moment, an adorably guileless charmer the next, one who tosses off winsome smiles like strike-zone fastballs.
-
Maria brought along her eldest daughter - a winsome lass with brown eyes and a ready smile.
-
I crossed my fingers as I subtly shoved the iPod behind me and smiled winsomely at him.
-
When he and the maid had pledged their troths, Siegfried's arm embraced eftsoon the winsome maid.
The Nibelungenlied
-
Then her arms dropped, and she looked straight into camera, her mobile face composed in an expression winsome and grave, and so light it might change with breeze.
Temporary Wife
-
Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated.
Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
-
The charm, the good looks, the winsome smile?
Times, Sunday Times
-
Diehard (the band) sling out great, buzzy songs, and couple them with the kind of winsome lyrics that lend credence to the idea that everything's going to be all right.
Artrocker
-
Cute disguises its pessimism and political inertia as winsomeness.
-
The charm, the good looks, the winsome smile?
Times, Sunday Times
-
Socola rose, extended his hand, drew his cloak about his slender shoulders and passed out into the storm, his dark face lighted by a smile as he recalled the winsome face of Jennie Barton.
The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
-
Canary yellow and bubblegum pink are the winning shades of the season and knee-length strappy dresses and casual linen trouser suits are the winsome styles.
-
Is it just a touch too winsome, too sweet-toothed?
The Times Literary Supplement
-
Her album features a winsome portrait shot contre-jour, external light washing over her.
-
Marie - indeed, winsomeness being the only positive trait they can think of is the point I was trying to make - they want an “admirable female” character for the lead to fall for, so they need to give her “admirable qualities”, and the only one they can think of is cute/winsome/adorable pouting/etc.
The problem of the Childlike Empress at SF Novelists
-
She looked at the cop, quickly pulling on her most winsome innocent face.
