Word Finder - smiling

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To have (a smile) on one's face.

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I don't know what he's smiling about.

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To express by smiling.

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to smile consent, or a welcome

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To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.

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To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.

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The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.

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To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.

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The gods smiled on his labours.

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The action of the verb to smile.

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Smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning.

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That smiles or has a smile.

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smiling children

Alex walked into the room, smiling when he saw what she had done.

He considered, smiling to himself.

She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity.

She was still smiling when she walked back into the kitchen.

She leaned toward him, smiling up at him suggestively.

Her last impression of Darcie was a smiling face.

Smiling, she ran the comb through her long hair.

Pierre stood smiling but silent.

She turned to find Alex smiling down at her.

But he found himself smiling at the enigmatic god's explanation.

She trailed her fingers down a wall, smiling when she saw soft glimmers light up beneath her touch, trail her fingers a short distance, and blink out.

He paused, smiling at some long ago happening, and then added, Ma needed all the money we could bring in.

He stood in the hallway smiling, his predatory look assuring her he had no plans of letting his dinner escape him.

The princess listened, smiling.

Glinka, the editor of the Russian Messenger, who was recognized (cries of "author! author!" were heard in the crowd), said that "hell must be repulsed by hell," and that he had seen a child smiling at lightning flashes and thunderclaps, but "we will not be that child."

Forgive us for Christ's sake, eh? said the peasants, smiling joyfully at him.

Felipa stood behind him, smiling.

She gently broke the embrace and stepped away, smiling up at him in an inviting way.

I was dialing my wife to tell her when Martha and Quinn came in the office, pushing a baby carriage with Claire smiling beneath her blankets.

The pretty young girl materialized, hair wet and smiling, dressed in a new bathrobe Betsy had purchased.

Her phone vibrated as she trotted down the stairs, and she glanced down, smiling to see he'd texted.

He could picture her, holding the hem of her gown, climbing onto the chair, perhaps even smiling, before kicking it away, and waiting the few agonizing moments until death took her hand and led her to its darkness.

A hundred years ago, Edith might have joined Annie, smiling her nights away at the Red Hat Saloon.

Effie sat at the table, smiling first at Fred O'Connor, then at the others, before beginning to read the pages.

He could picture her climbing onto the velvet chair, perhaps even smiling, before kicking it away, and waiting the few agonizing moments until death set her free.

Adrienne was still smiling when Brandon opened the door for her.

Alex watched her, smiling as she looked around the barn.

At that moment she was oblivious of her surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill you and make you weep.

Two tall old peasants with wrinkled faces and scanty beards emerged from the tavern, smiling, staggering, and singing some incoherent song, and approached the officers.

When you are smiling, your voice will convey your happiness.

His smile was so disarming that she couldn't help smiling back.

She quirked a brow and made an exaggerated point of putting her hair back in order, tossing her head pertly and smiling up at him.

I reluctantly descended the stairs, smiling but unsure what to say.

She looked into the car beside them at the smiling family frozen in place.

Joseph, smiling for the first time in Dean's memory, said he and Ginger planned to walk about town and perhaps hike up to the nearby Box Canyon waterfall.

Pumpkin looked at the picture of Randy Byrne, one leg up on a boulder, an I-own-the-world smile on his young face and Jen smiling at him with a look of love.

To escape the smiling innkeeper role, he plodded barefoot out back to the small patio, fired up the barbeque, popped the cap on the first of the last three Fat Tire Ales and stretched out on Cynthia's chaise.

He strolled among the self-conscious pets and people, smiling and looking until he was sure she wasn't there.

Mr. Checkmate was probably not smiling anymore.

Smiling, she went to his office and turned on the computer.

Jessi forced herself to keep smiling.

She rested back against him, smiling.

Then, one morning, Alfred went into his mother's room with a smiling, joyous face.

Husband and wife glanced at one another, both smiling with self-satisfaction, and each mentally claiming the honor of this visit.

In spite of her irritation, she couldn't help smiling.

Betsy didn't buy my toned down assessment but was at least still smiling.

Gray eyes watched her from the only face not smiling.

She leaned her head back, closing her eyes and smiling with the pure pleasure of the moment.

She leaned her head back on his shoulder and released a deep contented sigh, smiling as his hands released hers and lifted to her bodice.

Jessi's attention was on Gerry, who was smiling politely while his jaw ticked.