Sentence examples for as if in a wink from inspiring English sources

The other he shut, as if in a wink.

Everything is for sale, and we better continue buying as if in a 'wink-wink' way we are being threatened should we dare not play along.

Is a nod as good as a wink?

The Arcola has the provisional, on-its-toes appearance of all good fringe theatres: it looks as if could change into something else in a wink.

At the very least, these two still-distinct, venerable, 1960s-era espionage universes are talking to each other, if only in a wink-wink fashion.

If you're feeling particularly cheeky, you could throw in a wink!

But that disappears in a wink.

It's the sort of reference dropped in as a wink, from connoisseur to connoisseur, insider to insider.

We are in a recovery (wink wink).

Do the quick-as-a-wink, computerized systems count accurately?

And on "What If," there's a wink at Heart's "Alone," with a piano line that begins similarly, then veers off in a darker direction.