Winking

"Winking" in a Sentence (12 examples)

A confidence man polishes his "hood winking" or "eye-washing" techniques before bilking a new victim.

What do you keep winking at me for?

Tom is winking at Ken.

I am winking at him, but he's not looking.

Tom noticed that Mary was winking at John.

Sami is winking at me.

The “face blowing a kiss” emoji is a yellow face winking with puckered lips blowing a kiss, depicted as a small, red heart. It represents a kiss goodbye or good night and conveys feelings of love and affection more generally.

Tom's winking at Mary.

Tom is winking at Mary.

I saw Tom winking at Mary.

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I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple […]

[…] Billy didn’t get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city is capable of doing when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one. ¶ There was a broad river to reflect those lights, which would have made their nighttime winkings very pretty indeed.

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