Explore Smile through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like smiling or show. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Smile in a sentence
Related words
Smile meaning
- A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.
- Favour; propitious regard.
- A drink bought by one person for another.
Synonyms of Smile
Using Smile
- The main meaning on this page is: A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety. | Favour; propitious regard. | A drink bought by one person for another.
- Useful related words include: smiling, show, express, pull a face.
- In the example corpus, smile often appears in combinations such as: smile and, smile on, with smile.
Context around Smile
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Smile
- In this selection, "smile" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, people, polite, embarrassed, week, get and lit stand out and add context to how "smile" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 799 with smile direct club, a beautiful smile in reality and big smile. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "smile" sits close to words such as nbc, tweeted and legendary, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with smile
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A lopsided smile can be as problematic as no smile at all. (12 words)
Provincial Hospital, together with Smile Foundation and Easigas (Pty) Ltd, will be hosting a Smile Weekend. (16 words)
Singer Jessica Simpson speaks at the Operation Smile "Smile Gala" in Beverly Hills, California, Oct. 2, 2009. (17 words)
In an emotional video outside court, Boyce's loved ones told of how "his smile lit up any room" and "if you had a down day, he'd smile and you'd be up high". (35 words)
He has the smile of someone who doesn't know true reasons to smile, like he thinks "this rictus of a facial expression will be interpreted as a smile". (29 words)
So, whether you want to capture the perfect smile in photos or maintain a beautiful smile in reality, taking care of your teeth should always be a priority. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
He has identified 19 common types of smiles including the fixed polite smile, the embarrassed smile and the ecstatic smile to name a few.
Those who support Smile Week will not only give a child a reason to smile but also give a child a smile.
He has the smile of someone who doesn't know true reasons to smile, like he thinks "this rictus of a facial expression will be interpreted as a smile".
If, however, cheese makes you smile, get ready to smile a lot when you check out this week’s dairylicious reading list.
In an emotional video outside court, Boyce's loved ones told of how "his smile lit up any room" and "if you had a down day, he'd smile and you'd be up high".
Oliver, a photographer from Kent, spent £799 with Smile Direct Club just under two weeks ago in the hope of straightening his smile.
One woman shared that the smile she had on her face was probably the same smile that made her father call her the “funny one.
Singer Jessica Simpson speaks at the Operation Smile "Smile Gala" in Beverly Hills, California, Oct. 2, 2009.
So, whether you want to capture the perfect smile in photos or maintain a beautiful smile in reality, taking care of your teeth should always be a priority.
After dealing with the Smile Curse for most of the film, the Smile Entity finally kills Skye Riley at the very end of in a shocking way.
In short: our brain feels good and tells us to smile, we smile and tell our brain it feels good and so forth.
Provincial Hospital, together with Smile Foundation and Easigas (Pty) Ltd, will be hosting a Smile Weekend.
Against the foregoing backdrop, it is expedient to say that Crocodiles do not smile, and it is not incorrect to say that it does not smile.
I smile as I stand here looking outside the window of the hotel room, smile at the sensation of living life that it gives me.
It all brings a smile to my face at a time when it’s not easy to smile.
It has given many of our neighbors a smile and perhaps these will give you a smile during these rough times,” they added.
On the desktop, you can use the AmazonSmile 1Button for ChromeAmazon Smile! for Firefox browser extensions to be reminded to use Smile.
And the reason I think it’s important is because when we make people smile, we can be making tens of millions of people smile.
Every day, I walk in, I have a smile, and I get a smile back no matter what’s going on.
A lopsided smile can be as problematic as no smile at all.
Phrases with smile
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with smile
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- smile and 32×
- smile on 32×
- with smile 22×
- to smile 16×
- the smile 15×
- smile to 9×
- big smile 9×
- his smile 8×
- smile in 7×
- smile at 7×