"smiles" is a correct and usable word of written English.
You can use it to indicate happiness or friendliness, whether literal or figurative. For example: "His eyes sparkled with smiles."
"Lost in Showbiz," they ask, "for the love of God, what news of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's plans to conceive a second child?" At this, Lost in Showbiz smiles benignly.
She seems in her element among rural voters, all smiles, pearls and a sweater slung over her shoulders.
During her caliper readjustment Sharadamma looks at Ranoo, smiles and says 'I want to be like you when I'm older.' Ranoo smiles back faintly, knowing that despite all the work she has done, without major changes in government policy and society, Sharadamma will struggle to realise her ambitions.
I apologise for not having asked if he eats meat (because there is some in his sandwich) but the homeless man with a nice voice just smiles and thanks us.
Hegarty smiles: "I suppose it did take a long time to get where I was going.
Today's tooth-aware Brits can choose from an array of celebrity dentists, including Khalid Khan of Liverpool, who has worked on footballer John Barnes and singer Ian McCulloch Jamie Newlandss of Glasgow, who honed the smiles of Robert Carlyle and Sharleen Spiteri; or the Welbeck Clinic in London, which has treated Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Helena Bonham Carter.
We might have been sharing a hilarious moment, yet instantly the smiles and laughter disappeared and we stood united in our solemnity out of respect for her loss.
He has also acquired a reputation for brusqueness with journalists (he walked out of an interview with the Guardian in Iowa) and, unusually for an American politician, he hardly ever smiles.
But behind the smiles in Mr Hollande's campaign headquarters yesterday, doubts still lingered.
She smiles as she describes Wilson and herself.
