smirk

Example Sentences

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Moments later when the score flashed across the screen, Liu simply cracked a subtle smirk.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

On Chinese social media, pictures show some users sticking couplets or upside down pictures of Malfoy's signature smirk.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

It is probably easier to smirk or cast aspersions at the idea of a love for the ages than it is to accept that you have not met that person in your own life.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2025

I must be left in the snow, I must be buried in a hole, I must be reprimanded and ordered not to smirk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

Maddy must hear the sarcasm in my voice, because her freckled nose crinkles and her mouth twists into a smirk.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan