Winked
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Western governments
winked
at Saddam Hussein when he gassed the Kurds of northern Iraq in 1987-88, but his agents may yet turn the chemicals he tested there on targets in Berlin, London, or Washington.
More example sentences with word winked
“From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked… but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
Go, go!Vasily Lukich is calling you,' said the hall-porter, hearing the approaching step of the tutor, and gently disengaging the little hand in the half-drawn-off glove which held him by his shoulder-strap, as he nodded and
winked
toward the tutor.
Mouquet
winked
his left eye with a silent laugh which made his jaws gape.
He so worked upon his feelings with the pathos of these dreams, that he had to keep swallowing, he was so like to choke; and his eyes swam in a blur of water, which overflowed when he winked, and ran down and trickled from the end of his nose.
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