Example sentences for: grinning

How can you use “grinning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Then I'll just have to emphasize campaign finance reform," McCain replied, grinning mischievously.

  • He is one of the great chroniclers of midcentury luridness, but his photographs of men grinning at a dead body on the sidewalk are like those photographs of Southerners milling around after a lynching: They are undeniably riveting, but you don't really want to stop to think about what the photographer was doing there in the first place.

  • He may have been grinning, but he wasn't joking.

  • A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a Gurl . In it, not only do they designate a new spelling for "girl" (!) and are not afraid to discuss vaginal discharge (!), but apparently "tampons are drawn with grinning faces."

  • His eyes are narrowed, his mustache conceals his mouth but is bracketed by laugh lines--he is made to denote some kind of perfunctory emotion, actual emotion being consigned to his grinning subjects.


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