Examples of smiley in a Sentence
Adjective
She's a very smiley kid.
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Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
Working out must be tricky for someone with CIPA, and Quaid has a tall, lanky quality that suggests a smiley scarecrow — but what a smile, combining the best of parents Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid!
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
Political manifestos, smileys, religious satire––the provocative and ironic Moschino symbology is very much here, along with a colorful array of ties, collars, bras.
—Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
The smiley toddler had diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, a cancer that occurs in the part of the brain stem that controls vital functions including breathing, blood pressure and heart rate.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
Working out must be tricky for someone with CIPA, and Quaid has a tall, lanky quality that suggests a smiley scarecrow — but what a smile, combining the best of parents Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid!
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
For the smiley insignia here is the mark of notorious Happy Face serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
Political manifestos, smileys, religious satire––the provocative and ironic Moschino symbology is very much here, along with a colorful array of ties, collars, bras.
—Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Smiley.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smiley. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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