Example sentences for: winking

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

  • He was holding up a pair of grey rectangles, linked by a black umbilicus and each winking a single garnet eye.

  • And then there are the bellybuttons: On one page Truman Capote, no longer the slender, bow-tied manchild Avedon had photographed a decade earlier, pulls open his dark shirt to show his navel, a winking eye in an expanse of pale flesh.

  • In Saturday Night Fever his charisma elevated junk to greatness, and in Pulp Fiction he played a dirt-bag with just the right winking theatricality.

  • Benny Hill, whose shows have often been seen (too often, some might be inclined to say) in the U.S., rarely resorts to rude language, focusing rather on what is viewed as a revival of old burlesque routines in which there is much rolling of the eyes, winking, and the sly aside to the audience, all of which add up to the rudeness being in the mind of the beholder.

  • Chuck Jones and other illustrators were mocking stereotyped homosexual behavior, not winking at homosexuals in a friendly way.


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