How to Use emoticon in a Sentence

emoticon

noun

• There was also a smiley face emoticon drawn on the sheet.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• Everyone knows that the winky emoticon means true love.
  — Diana Bruk, Seventeen, 11 Aug. 2016
• These have been decisions taken in the spirit of the shrug emoticon.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• Musk even replied to the original tweet with his favorite emoticon, the cry-laugher.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• The first use of smiley faces, often composed of a colon, dash and close parenthesis, now called emoticons, was in the 1960s.
  — Sophia Kunthara, SFChronicle.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Two crucial ones were the < symbol and the number 3, which together made an emoticon heart <3.
  — Sheera Frenkel, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• Partial to a smile emoticon or two, this Dane was discovered on Facebook in 2017.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2023
• There’s a compound emoticon — Flexed biceps and Pouting face for first baseman Chase Headley.
  — Ronald Blum, The Seattle Times, 16 Aug. 2017
• Her tweet was accompanied by an emoticon of a broken heart.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• The Twitter default photo has gone through a number of changes throughout the years, including a person, emoticon and a bird.
  — Queenie Wong, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2017
• Hundreds of people sent neon-colored heart emoticons in an endless stream.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• Instead, reading a happy face in the text of a work email made people think that the sender was less competent if the same message did not contain the emoticon, the researchers found.
  — Julia Zorthian, Time, 14 Aug. 2017
• Also, a word to the wise; when in doubt about your ability to convey subtle humor like sarcasm, add an emoticon.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2014
• The emoticon was born after a physics thought experiment.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2012
• By the 1990s, the Japanese turned the sideways emoticon into a single character, now known as an emoji, and a bunch of symbols.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2017
• Sending Facebook hugs just got easier, thanks to this new emoticon.
  — Arlene Martinez, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2020
• For those who are unfamiliar, the yellow emoticon currently has downturned eyes and wears a white mask.
  — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020
• But all are united in their waxing nostalgic about the golden days of Buddy Lists, emoticons, and pointless chats with SmarterChild.
  — Andrea Park, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2017
• Overuse of fancy fonts, colors, and emoticons turned plenty of AIM profiles into crimes against graphic design.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2017
• Those doodles began to make their way into internet writing with the advent of the first emoticon, : - ), in 1982, and then went on to blossom into the vast expressive form of emoji.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 2 Aug. 2019
• Hsu also shared a sweet picture of her and the actor cuddling up to each other on her Instagram last week, captioning the post simply with a smiling emoticon.
  — Shafiq Najib, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022
• From those two simple emoticons (a portmanteau combining the words emotion and icon) have sprung dozens of others that are the joy, or bane, of e-mail, text-message and instant-message correspondence the world over.
  — Brita, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2011
• Angry emoticons There are many similar customer complaints on Art Van's Facebook page.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2020
• Otherwise basic pieces include embroidered-on kitschy phrases or emoticons, at not-so-cheap prices.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 4 May 2020
• Twitter feeds quickly filled with teary, wailing GIFs and heart emoticons cracked in two — pithy punctuation about anemic 401(k) accounts being whittled down to wisps.
  — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• On Twitch, while all channels are free, subscribing to a channel gives viewers perks like subscriber-only chat, subscriber-only emoticons and discounts on merchandise.
  — Laura Parker, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2017
• This was likely the first emoticon, a kind of emotional shorthand that emerged in online communications to compensate for the loss of in-person tonal clues (facial expressions, gestures, and so forth).
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2019
• Podcasts, film clips, emoticons, and emojis are the new pictographs of an increasingly illiterate public.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 17 Oct. 2017
• An emoticon conveying the smugness felt after giving an unexpected explanation of the origins of one’s wealth and success.
  — Madeline Hester, The New Yorker, 2 July 2022
• In the aftermath, some Facebook executives have taken to Twitter for a public charm offensive, sending pithy phrases and emoticons to reporters who cover the company.
  — Sheera Frenkel and Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024