Sentence examples for smirk off from inspiring English sources

"Wipe that smirk off your face," the actor playing him snarls at a Brown & Williamson attorney.

There is no chance of an interest rate rise wiping the smile or smirk off George Osborne's face before May's general election.

During the test, the poor actress desperately tried to read the absurdly melodramatic script with lines like, "Wipe that smirk off your face, before I mash my goddamn shoe in it," and "…Or is it just the thrill of old, withered hands touching your naked, muscled flesh?

Today the 66-year-old Nader drives desperate liberals up the wall by draining more of "their" votes; tomorrow he may wipe the smirk off conservative faces as he siphons off more votes loyal Republicans presume to be "ours".

If anyone had felt a touch of schadenfreude as they witnessed Marks & Spencer's convulsions over the past year, surely last Friday's shocking news that the retailer was axing all orders with William Baird, one of its four largest suppliers, was enough to wipe the smirk off their faces.

Leave your expensive, ego-boosting toy at home, and wipe that smug smirk off your face.

Declan passes by, smirking: "Off for a cavort?" Philpotts says this: "I want you back in –" he checks his watch "– 15 minutes, or I take this matter higher.

He may have lost his plucky bid to win the first statewide election in Texas as a Democrat since 1994, but he came so close that he thoroughly wiped the smirks off Republican faces.

Then Dagan slipped the video into the VCR — "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" — and gave them their instructions, serious business now, a ritual, and no fooling around ("I'm serious, people, and wipe the smirks off your faces — you are in deep shit now").

The second scene is Bara, glancing around shiftily, picking up those same roses, smelling them, smirking, ripping off the petals, crushing them in her hands, and laughing.

I love picturing her walking somewhere listening to this and smirking, giving off this total air of superior femininity & strength.