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Smiling in sentence

583 examples of Smiling in a sentence

'Now I am going to act,' she said, smiling and wiping the traces of tears from her face.
You'd better tell me,' said Vasily Lukich, smiling, which he rarely did.
Silently and questioningly he gazed for a few moments at his mother, who stood motionless before him, then suddenly smiling blissfully, he closed his heavy eyelids and fell once more, not backward, but forwards into her arms.
Sleepily smiling with closed eyes, he moved his plump hands from the back of his bed to her shoulders, leaning against her and enveloping her in that sweet scent of sleepiness and warmth which only children possess, and began rubbing himself against her neck and shoulder.
The plump, well-nourished baby, as usual when she saw her mother, turned her little hands – so fat that they looked as if the wrists had threads tied tightly round them – palms downward and, smiling with her toothless mouth, began waving them as a fish moves its fins, making the starched folds of her embroidered frock rustle.
'Well, let us go,' he said, smiling slightly under cover of his big moustache, and showing by that smile that he understood the cause of Vronsky's depression, but did not attach importance to it.
On the stage the singer, in a glitter of bare shoulders and diamonds, was bowing low and smiling as she picked up with the help of the tenor – who held her hand – bouquets that had been clumsily flung across the footlights; she went up to a gentleman; with hair shiny with pomatum and parted in the middle, who was stretching his long arms across the footlights to hand her something – and the whole audience in the stalls and in the boxes stirred, leaned forward, shouted and applauded.
Next to a lady wearing a turban, and a bald old man who blinked angrily just as Vronsky's moving glass reached him, he suddenly saw Anna's proud head, strikingly beautiful, and smiling in its frame of lace.
'In many ways you have changed since your marriage and for the better,' said Koznyshev, smiling at Kitty and apparently not much interested in his conversation with his brother; 'but you have remained true to your passion for defending the most paradoxical views.''Kate, it is not good for you to be standing,' said her husband, with a meaning look, moving a chair toward her.
'You are,' answered Kitty, her eyes smiling dreamily.
'Well, Agatha Mikhaylovna, is the jam done?' asked Levin, smiling at her and wishing to cheer her up.
'On the other hand, your pickling is such that Mama says she never tasted anything like it!' she added, smiling and putting the old woman's kerchief straight.
'You envy him because he can't fall in love?''I envy him because he is better than I am,' replied he, smiling.
'But when I examine myself and compare myself with others, especially with my brother, I feel how bad I am.''In what way?' asked she, still smiling.
Meanwhile Vasenka, without the least suspicion of the sufferings his presence was causing, rose from the table after Kitty and followed her, smiling pleasantly.
'It will be much better so.''But where will it reach to with three additional steps?''Excuse me, sir!' said the carpenter, smiling contemptuously.
'Maybe you are stopping here on principle?' said Oblonsky, smiling, as he searched in the dark for his cap.
'Excuse me – I have only just finished my ablutions,' he said smiling, as he stood before Levin in his underclothes.
'You wear leggings for riding?''Yes, it's much cleaner,' said Vasenka, placing his fat foot on a chair, fastening the bottom hook, and smiling good-naturedly.
'I am so glad!' answered Dolly, smiling, but in a colder tone than she intended.
I see that Anna is happy, quite happy, she has already told me so,' said Dolly smiling; and involuntarily while saying it she doubted whether Anna was really happy.
Smiling slightly, Vronsky continued his conversation with Sviyazhsky, evidently having no desire to start a conversation with Levin; but Levin, while talking to his brother, kept looking round at Vronsky, trying to think of something to say to him, in order to mitigate his rudeness.
But why should I?'Well then, I will be down on him!' said his wife smiling, as she stood in her white fur-lined cloak waiting for them to finish their talk.
'Well, have you finished?' asked Oblonsky, rising and smiling.
I can see you smiling sarcastically, but you are wrong!
'No, no,' she said smiling, holding him back with her hand.
Immediately!' answered a voice, and Levin was astounded to detect that the doctor was smiling as he said it.
He saw her burning face, now bewildered and full of suffering, and now smiling and soothing him.
But seeing her meek smiling face and hearing her say, 'I have worn you out,' he blamed God; but the thought of God made him at once pray for forgiveness and mercy.
Smiling, and hardly able to keep back tears of tenderness, Levin kissed his wife and quitted the darkened room.
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