Example sentences for: smirk

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

  • A far more interesting question than how Bush's smirk is interpreted , however, is: What does it mean ? Calmes quotes C-Span's Brian Lamb as saying, in effect, that it's just a cruel trick of genetic physiognomy: "His father has the same thing; it's just not as pronounced as it is with 'W.

  • When one of the Republican pygmies attacked him, his grin would turn into a smirk.

  • But it was a suppressed smirk that said, "I'm trying to hide my contempt, but I can't hide it completely."

  • '" Presumably Bush himself got the message; his smirk was not much in evidence at this week's Arizona debate.

  • Concluding that the matter of Bush's smirk was too weighty to be left in the hands of nonscientists, Chatterbox e-mailed Paul Ekman, professor of psychology at the University of California at San Francisco.


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