Example Sentences

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The students point out that Yale has winked at off-campus housing for Orthodox pupils in the past as long as they paid their room and board, now $6,850.

From Time Magazine Archive

Actually, in recent weeks, Bourguiba has spent much time in Paris, and the French government has winked at it.

From Time Magazine Archive

She has winked rather hard to make tears come, and now she ungratefully winks them away again and dances for joy.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

The worthy lady has winked so hard at her   dutiful sons, that she's nearly blind with winking.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by MacDonald, George

Sable night, which, since the beginning of the world, has winked and looked on at so many deeds of iniquity—night is the time usually selected for their operations by man-of-war gamblers.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman