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How to use smile in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Smile means a facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety. Example: “She's got a perfect smile.”

Examples of smile by meaning

nounA facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth...

  • She's got a perfect smile.
  • He has a sinister smile.
  • She had a smile on her face.

nounFavour; propitious regard.

  • the smile of the gods

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

  • When you smile, the whole world smiles with you.
  • I don't know what he's smiling about.
  • She smiles a beautiful smile.

verbTo express by smiling.

  • to smile consent, or a welcome

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

  • The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.

verbTo be propitious or favourable; to countenance.

  • The gods smiled on his labours.

verbOf ackee fruit: to open fully, indicating that it is no longer toxic, and ready to be picked.

  • Then it “smiles,” bursting open, exposing yellow meat with black seeds.2003, Jessica B. Harris, Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food from the Atlantic Rim, page 20

More sentences with smile

  • His face fit his roles: now smiling, now earnest, now glowering, now raging.From the entry now
  • I did not register that look to mean anything more than an innocent, friendly smile.From the entry register
  • She had a fiendish smile that hinted at a cunning plan.From the entry fiendish
  • He grinned a broad smile when I told him the result.From the entry grin
  • The Almighty has smiled on us and blessed with good fortune.From the entry almighty
  • "So you enjoyed yourself, did you," she said, with a meaningful smile.From the entry meaningful
  • I can see by your plaintive smile something is wrong, so spill it.From the entry plaintive
  • He didn't like it one bit, but he smiled just the same.From the entry just the same
  • How do you differentiate a fake smile from a genuine one?From the entry differentiate
  • She broke into a smile, wrenching herself away from our head physician.From the entry break into
  • Farnesworth smiled contentedly as he read the stock ticker; all was ducky on Wall Street.From the entry ducky
  • He’s got a big smile on his face—who’s he been canoodling recently?From the entry canoodle
  • She looked at him with a deprecating smile on her face.From the entry deprecating
  • When I look back at my summer holidays as a child, I smile.From the entry look back
  • His heart beat apitpat with every smile she flashed his way.From the entry apitpat
  • You won't be smiling when Inspector Knacker pays you a visit.From the entry Inspector Knacker
  • With those clothes and that smile, he's a real chick magnet.From the entry chick magnet
  • The baby smiled happily as he was pushed along in the bockety pram.From the entry bockety
  • She spun around and gave him a big smile.From the entry spin
  • She flashed me a smile from the car window.From the entry flash
  • She’s trying not to smile, but she can’t help herself.From the entry help
  • He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.From the entry affect
  • He smiled and gave a big thumbs up.From the entry thumbs up
  • She buried her shame and put on a smiling face.From the entry bury
  • He'll fall for any chick with a nice smile.From the entry chick
  • His big smile and brown eyes instantly attracted me.From the entry attract
  • I tried to look disappointed, but a smile escaped me.From the entry escape
  • A smile grew across Jim's freckled face.From the entry freckled
  • Behind the smile was a cruel intention.From the entry behind

Meaning of smile

  1. noun A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.
  2. noun Favour; propitious regard.
  3. noun A drink bought by one person for another.

Full definition of smile

Questions about smile in a sentence

How do you use smile in a sentence?
Smile is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She's got a perfect smile.”
What is a short sentence with smile?
“He has a sinister smile.”
What does smile mean?
Smile means a facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: smile (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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