Sentence examples for passing smile from inspiring English sources

"Perhaps," she said with a passing smile.

The pursed, passing smile of a young woman in what looks like Union Square is made, by force, to correspond to the recent death of her sister.

Such complaints were still commonplace nearly 20 years later; in The Book of Days (1864), author Robert Chambers wrote about a case of wife selling in 1832, and noted that "the occasional instances of wife-sale, while remarked by ourselves with little beyond a passing smile, have made a deep impression on our continental neighbours, [who] constantly cite it as an evidence of our low civilisation".

He faces his questioner at close quarters, his eyes holding yours, and lights up the gravitas with passing smiles of extraordinary sweetness.

Together, thousands applauded and at times even chanted her name as she passed, smiling and waving.

Khalid El-Amin provided the end-game heroics, but the best player for the Huskies was Jake Voskuhl, the senior center, who shot, rebounded, passed, smiled, scowled, shouted, joked with the officials and dived on the floor.

"I'm happy that they make people passing by smile," the pensioner told VICE News with a kind grin.

Wave a hi/bye or pass a smile just don't look needy.

("Just above the dirty mags/Every day having fun/In the Brighton sun/They didn't mind being on the shelf/They were fine, they had their health/And all the people passing by/Seemed to smile as they caught their eye". I wrote and sang the theme song, too!) That was the idea.

If I see my exes in passing I wave, smile and that is the end of it.

As I stood dinner-jacketed and suicidal in the foyer, old friends passed me, smiling encouragingly.