wink at
Example Sentences
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Downing was “adept at switching between the material and the spiritual,” a realist willing to wink at disagreements and who favored “subtlety, sophistication and restraint.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
It likes to nod and wink at its subjects, including those in on the joke.
From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025
The actors don’t so much address theatergoers directly as wink at them in ironic asides.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024
The tooth is a wink at “One Morning in Maine,” an earlier Robert McCloskey book involving a wiggly bicuspid — or was it a molar?
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024
I bent to turn the faucet off, but my head swam, and the faint shimmer of water on the tile seemed to wink at me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
