winking
- present participle of wink.
Example Sentences
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Winking screens and sterile corridors, cleanly photographed by Xiaosu Han and Andreas Thalhammer, make for clinically repetitive visuals and a depressing mood that the constant quarreling and no-good-choices plot only intensify.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
Winking back at Feynman, Smalley quipped, “there’s not that much room.”
From Slate • Sep. 6, 2016
Winking kitsch is not the same as successful irony.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2015
The titles are good: Sly Winking Usury is one, This is True Muscle Suicide is another.
From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2013
Winking in the first light of dawn, held in the hands of the goblin emissary, was the gemstone Spurge had brought to Tenebrion.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
