Example sentences for: winking

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

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

  • 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.

  • The upstart did not just so much challenge Cosby as envelop it: In perhaps the most sustained of the winking pop-culture references for which it has become famous (and on which it came to depend rather too heavily as time went on), The Simpsons soon featured an avuncular African-American physician with a penchant for multicolored sweaters.

  • 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.

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


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