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
Think “overdraft-protection polenta” or a “cheap chorizo tostada” — meals that somehow still felt cheffy, like a little wink at your former foodie ambitions.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025
His rendition of Fly Me To the Moon impressed the judges, as did his boyish charm - he showed a cheeky streak when he flashed a mid-song wink at Girls Aloud star Cheryl.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 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
Someday, he thought, old James would come out from behind a tree, howling like Mosely of the Jungle, and he'd wink at Bad Brooks and fall into step.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
