simper

Example Sentences

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“I just could not simper, flutter my eyelids or gaze adoringly into the leading man’s eyes … my performance was as inadequate as I feared it would be.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2016

He tweeted: "*blush* *giggle* *simper* - thank you very much, nice Golden Rose people."

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2015

Thirty years later, I look at my teenage daughters' girlfriends: they don't simper.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2013

Soon she and Vinny have established a playful rapport that causes Edgar to whimper and simper in jealousy.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011

He couldn’t simper around these fools and still be what he was becoming for Naomi.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez