Sentence examples for gloating smile from inspiring English sources
There is one more flash of that gloating smile before it rounds the stairs.
Over a cup of coffee that was better suited for destroying nature preserves, it was time for me to ask Bobby why he was smiling -- a gloating smile that said, I don't care if what I'm eating gives me a terminal illness.
But Bellatrix dies with a "gloating smile" still frozen on her face, perhaps preferring death over Molly Weasley's domestic bliss. .
Instead of gloating about the assists, he smiled and laughed at himself.
When he takes a sexual partner to the White House, he gloats, "President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand".
Floyd sat in a chair at the far wall, trying not to smile, though he did so, horribly, half gloating, half in pity.
The smile has a mean edge, too, an element of gloating.
He smiled at her and very nearly seemed to be gloating.
(His portrait work is magnificent to a fault, marmoreally elegant. No one smiles — except Capa, at a racetrack in 1953, infectiously gloating over betting slips held like a hand of cards).
He had been told never to gloat or even to smile after he'd punched someone into smithereens.
As security checks continued, gloating tweets were sent from the @Ev4cuati0nSquad Twitter profile, which carried a photo of a wryly smiling Vladimir Putin and part of a flag linked to Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah.
