Example collocations logo

Smile in sentence

1661 examples of Smile in a sentence

In the West, we tend to smile at Jain monks who sweep ants from their paths to avoid treading on them.
Even here, behind prison bars and 24-hour surveillance of the type that he experienced for so long, I can conjure the warmth of his broad smile, merry eyes, and those colorful Hawaiian-style shirts that he wore with such panache.
No Smile LimitIf you were to walk along the streets of your neighborhood with your face up and an open expression, how many of those who passed you would smile, or greet you in some way?
Smiling is a universal human practice, although readiness to smile at strangers varies according to culture.
In Australia, where being open and friendly to strangers is not unusual, the city of Port Phillip, an area covering some of the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, has been using volunteers to find out how often people smile at those who pass them in the street.
Mayor Janet Bolitho says that putting up the signs is an attempt to encourage people to smile or say “G’day” – the standard Australian greeting – to both neighbors and strangers as they stroll down the street.
Here is one measure of success: over the past year and a half, the proportion of people who smile at you in Port Phillip has risen, from 8% to 10%.
Either it is like lightning, striking some unlucky woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time (an isolated, mysterious event, caused by some individual man’s sudden psychopathology), or it is “explained” by some seductive transgression by the victim (the wrong dress, a misplaced smile).
“President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans,” Romney told the Republican convention, and then paused, with the expectant smile of a comedian waiting for the audience to catch on to the joke.
The world’s governments must be able to trade horses if pandas and presidents are to do more than smile.
(A former Democratic governor recently declared that she should smile more.
As I arrived, I was greeted by a group of teenage girls bouncing along the road, so full of energy and laughter that I couldn’t help but smile, too.
The surrealist essence of the rebellion was somehow symbolized by Gilles Caron’s famous photograph, in which an insolent smile at a riot policeman subverts the frozen, established order to the point of making it ridiculous.
With the so-called Agenda for Sustainable Development having been quietly finalized by diplomats and United Nations bureaucrats last month, the leaders are expected just to smile for the cameras and sign on the dotted line.
Some jobs – think of those uniformed middle-aged men who smile and bow at customers entering a bank – appear to be entirely superfluous.
They would smile and wave and throw us whatever gifts they happened to have – playing cards, chewing gum, lifesaver candies….For us they were like heroes from another world.”
His smile could light up a stadium.
The smile was rare and constrained.
She tried to include him in their conversation, even leaning in to kiss him occasionally, but a weak smile could not obscure her sugar daddy’s growing discomfort.
When a distinguished Jewish scholar thanked him for what he had done to cultivate Catholic-Jewish relations, he replied: “That was not me, that was Providence,” and then added with his inimitable smile: “And me.”
But technological advances in the Chinese business sector occur at the bottom of the smile curve, and core-technology owners have extracted most of the added value from Chinese manufacturing.
There will always be those who smile skeptically at the mere notion of a Green Economy and dismiss such far-reaching transitions.
Some of these presentations have raised a wry smile or two.
Whatever political horrors may be afflicting the world, there is something for many of us to smile about: a clean, healthy, and pain-free set of pearly whites.
In my ten years working in government, I have personally encountered no situation that could not be handled with a smile, a little consideration, and a touch of positivity.
Almost all babies with this condition die soon after birth; the few survivors are incapable of responding even to their mother’s smile.
Masayoshi Son, CEO of the Japanese multinational conglomerate SoftBank and an enthusiastic investor in AI, recently said that his company seeks “to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.”
EU leaders could be forgiven an ironic smile.
'What doubt can there be of the existence of God?' he asked with a faint smile.
'I hear you are about to enter into holy matrimony with the daughter of my parishioner and spiritual son, Prince Shcherbatsky?' he added with a smile.
BackNext