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How to use smiley in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective, noun

Smiley means cheerful and happy; smiling. Example: “How do you type the angry smiley?”

Examples of smiley by meaning

adjectiveCheerful and happy; smiling.

  • have a smiley demeanor
  • a very smiley girl

nounA sequence of text characters used to represent a mood, especially :) or :-) or other depictions of smiling.

  • How do you type the angry smiley?

More sentences with smiley

  • I smiled at the little smiley face someone had drawn onto the mug in black nikko.2016, Kelly Carrero, Evolution Series Books 1-2. From the entry nikko
  • I use the smiley face with the hearts for eyes as my emoji.2016 November 7, Lauren Cochrane, quoting Beth Ditto, “Beth Ditto on liking the word fat, meeting Kate Moss and shopping at thrift…. From the entry heart eyes
  • First off, smiley faces are the ONLY kind of emoticon allowed in business correspondence.2011 December 28, Ramona Emerson, “Emoticons At Work: Unprofessional Or Necessary Evil?”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the…. From the entry frowny face
  • I put a smiley face at the end of the message.2007, C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love And Economics, page 94. From the entry smiley face
  • Enter the smiley face, the computer hacker's version of comic relief.2002, Lisa Malia McDonough, Lisa, the Brief Life of a Writer, page 136. From the entry smiley face
  • The one I have has a little smiley face and a little frowning face.1992, Lora Brody, “Welcome to Your Kitchen”, in The Kitchen Survival Guide: A Hand-holding Kitchen Primer with 130 Recipes to Get You…. From the entry nuke
  • Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 155. From the entry salmon
  • Smiley peered once more at the flimsy which he still clutched in his pudgy hand.1977, John le Carré [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], The Honourable Schoolboy, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 274. From the entry flimsy
  • It's death to look too eager, too needy, too smiley.2009, Julie Oliver, I've Been 16 for 34 Years, page 74. From the entry geekster
  • The smiley Mac face appeared and soon I was ready to dazzle the world with The Journals Book II.2005, R. T. Stone, The Journals Book II: Into the Gulf, page 28. From the entry spin up
  • Not the new kind with the smiley faces though.2000 January 1, Tracy T., “Knock knock...”, in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet), archived from the original on 21 Oct 2025. From the entry goldfish
  • I refuse to use smileys, or saddies or any other kind of squiggle, so I get misunderstood a lot.1998 September 16, Ford Prefect, “Damon and Monza (Spoiler)”, in alt.damonhill (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2026. From the entry saddie
  • If the smiley face lights up when you pass it in front of the turned-on microwave, then you can nuke with impunity.1992, Lora Brody, “Welcome to Your Kitchen”, in The Kitchen Survival Guide: A Hand-holding Kitchen Primer with 130 Recipes to Get You…. From the entry nuke
  • Tips on how to go from equanimitably smiley to ragingly angry with the world in under ten minutes: climb Arthur’s Seat on the hottest day of all time.2019 August 25, Jem Roberts Books (@JemRoberts), Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2023. From the entry equanimitably
  • She then came and stood right in front of the humungous building, clicked a quick selfie, and Whatsapped the image to Ekansh with three kiss smileys.2014, Novoneel Chakraborty, Marry Me, Stranger (The Stranger Trilogy; 1), Gurgaon, Haryana: Random House India, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry whatsapp

Meaning of smiley

  1. adjective Cheerful and happy; smiling.
  2. adjective Having one's throat slit from side to side.
  3. noun A simplified representation of a smiling face.

Full definition of smiley

Questions about smiley in a sentence

How do you use smiley in a sentence?
Smiley is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “How do you type the angry smiley?”
What is a short sentence with smiley?
“a very smiley girl”
What does smiley mean?
Smiley means cheerful and happy; smiling.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smiley (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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