How to Use smiley in a Sentence

smiley

1 of 2 adjective

• She's a very smiley kid.
• A gray-haired civilian is in charge of smiley young staff sergeants.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 3 May 2017
• In the salad, carrots are sliced thinly and cut in the shape of smiley faces.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
• The Duck Dynasty star captioned the sweet post with a series of smiley faces.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 25 May 2021
• At just five years old, this smiley Chihuahua mix sure has a lot to be grateful for.
  — The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2021
• Ready for a new forever home, the smiley pup is eager to start anew.
  — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
• Gone are the days when the most notable Nickelodeon host was simply a block of color with a smiley-face drawn in the center.
  — Jeff Nowak, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2021
• Sudeikis comes on like the Dennis Quaid of the ’80s, with a little less smiley assurance but a lot of cowboy charm.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2021
• At the bottom of the sign was exactly what you’d expect of a classroom teacher—a heart and a smiley face.
  — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 26 July 2017
• Some people are just freer with their smiley faces than others.
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• Even when sharing a cute, smiley photo, Philipps makes sure to point out it’s not all fun and games with her two daughters.
  — Patricia Garcia, Vogue, 27 July 2018
• When the smiley 7-year-old -- who grew up speaking Burmese -- gets several questions right in a row, they high-five through the screen.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
• Between smiley photos on the red carpet, the couple took a moment for a quick smooch.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2023
• Add some smiley faces to increase adorable levels by 1,000%.
  — Glamour, 6 Oct. 2021
• Most recently, the smiley dog made a cameo in a cute Instagram video.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
• Silver paint was sprayed in the shape of male genitalia, along with the letters BLM (black lives matter), and some smiley faces.
  — cleveland, 13 July 2020
• Charles and Camilla sent out this smiley greeting for Christmas back in 2014.
  — Maria Mercedes Lara, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2022
• The driver, who has not been identified, ended his plea with a smiley face.
  — Jennifer Earl, CBS News, 12 June 2017
• Shriver captioned the smiley photo of the pair posing with a birthday cake.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Two years ago, the smiley gray-and-white pooch disappeared from his home with the Frausto family.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2018
• The smiley face shows up again and again in the show, beginning with a shot of Angela breaking eggs in a smiley formation in the first episode.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
• One of the hero items of Heaven is an orange knit sweater vest that features a scribbly smiley-meets-flower face on it.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2020
• Call the smiley-face mission a tumbleweed; call it a snowball.
  — Leslie Barker, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2021
• Even the plastic bits that cover up screw holes have little winking smiley faces on them.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
• Her eyes were set intensely on the pen in her hand, drawing the round outline of a smiley face, next to shaky letters that spelled out her name: Shahd.
  — Caelainn Hogan, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2017
• After about a year of dating, Gustin and Thoma announced their engagement in April 2017, with a smiley selfie of them on the beach.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
• The couple also kept Sterling warm by wrapping her in a tan and white smiley-face blanket.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2022
• In addition to her work in Mexico, the smiley pup engaged in rescue work in Haiti and Ecuador.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
• Her and Ryan Reynolds’s daughter Inez chose a pink-and-white dress, a pink smiley-face sweatshirt, and black stilettos with pink poms on the back for Lively to wear…at 5 a.m.
  — Elizabeth Loga, Glamour, 8 Sep. 2021
• The proud mom began the post with two smiley selfies of the mother-son duo that featured Matteo’s big blue eyes on full display, while her own were hidden behind large sunglasses.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023

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smiley

2 of 2 noun

• This is the new Hadid, the smiley-faced, not at all bored Hadid.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 14 May 2018
• No word yet on whether the cafes will serve up sherbet in smiley-face cups.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 July 2017
• The smiley reminds me of growing up in the ’90s, which was awesome (and when freeze tag trumped Twitter).
  — Chloe Moloney, kansascity, 18 Aug. 2017
• Since 2015, the consortium has had to choose the hues available for the complexions of smileys.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 28 June 2018
• Chen, in a black polo and cargo shorts, is quieter and smiley.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2022
• The star of the show was a lavender striped sweater vest from Ganni featuring smiley faces all over the fabric.
  — Seventeen, 12 Aug. 2022
• There's a reason that children draw smiley faces on suns in their pictures.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 16 Mar. 2021
• The next day, the ballpoint pen artist spent 10 hours filling postcards with her tiny smileys, which gave her the idea to keep going until the ink ran out.
  — Melissa Minton, Teen Vogue, 7 Aug. 2017
• Apart from the watch’s vibrant yellow strap, the placement of the signature smiley on its crown ties the piece together.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2022
• For the outing, the model and Rhode founder wore a neon green smiley-face hoodie from Justin's brand Drew House, pairing the long sweatshirt with tiny bike shorts for a no pants look.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Jan. 2023
• The super smiley tot didn't seem the least bit bothered by the cold—probably because he was adorned in a teeny tiny gray snowsuit from The North Face.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 5 Feb. 2019
• Many patients first encountered this new thinking in the form of charts that asked them to point to a range of smiley to frowning faces to indicate where their pain fell on the scale.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2019
• But the newest innovation is the smiley in the center, which only shows up under black light.
  — Fortune, 13 Jan. 2018
• The service was smiley, the marble shiny, and pillows plentiful.
  — Max Abelson, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
• Braun, 38, captioned his photo, along with a smiley emoji.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 16 July 2019
• At others, workers are asked to regularly log their frame of mind with a smiley or frowning face, or track their moods on apps.
  — Chip Cutter, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2020
• Jenna Bush Hager‘s baby boy is one smiley little 3-month-old!
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Many responded with thumbs-ups and smiley faces, but to others, in a week of vocal support for women, fashion’s mean girls seemed to have gone low.
  — Christina Binkley, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2017
• The photo features a smiley Woodley posing with a name tag for her character, Jane.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2018
• Riley Hein — a smiley, gregarious teen who played trombone in the school marching band — was dead.
  — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
• Across the nation, peace signs were as ubiquitous as today's smiley-face emojis.
  — Bob Dyer, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
• An animated movie about those little smiley-face icons on your phone.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 9 May 2017
• Collin, wearing a black T-shirt with a green smiley face, talked to a friend at a picnic table near where the truck had careened into the chain-link fence, since replaced by a shiny new section.
  — John Woodrow Cox, courant.com, 9 June 2017
• The series seemed anxious about portraying anything nasty enough to upset the smiley balance.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• The black fishnets, silver chain necklaces, ripped jeans, and smiley-face Nirvana tees have been popular since the 1980s when heavy metal fans jammed out at rock concerts sans iPhone.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 26 Jan. 2023
• There have been at least 60 versions of the sign, and most have included a photo of a seemingly ageless, sinewy and smiley Mr. Smith posing with his instrument.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• Guns shoot smiley-face flags; the male chorus lip-syncs the children’s chorus music and does silly choreography.
  — Micaela Baranello, New York Times, 5 July 2017
• The smiley design seems to be inspired by the infamous hotel slippers Justin’s always wearing.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 26 Dec. 2018
• An oversized Hirst painting of skulls faces a sunny Takashi Murakami canvas of smiley-faced flowers.
  — Elaine Glusac, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Other available items for 2023 include a cross body belt bag, a tie-dye denim jacket, a red satin jacket, a red Tipsy Elves adult onesie with white smileys all over it, a smiley leather keychain and more.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024