Sentence examples for smirk with from inspiring English sources

The phrase "smirk with" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe someone smiling or smirking in a knowing or suggestive way. For example, "John smirk with delight when his secret crush walked into the room."

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My housemates would smirk with knowing looks as I gently shook my throbbing head, and laughed.

Opponents of this government said it would happen – and it's all too easy to smirk with we-told-you-so glee.

I'd smirk with satisfaction at the discomfiture of a reader discovered with a copy of The Sultan's Virgin Bride (Mills & Boon, £5.95) in his LV overnight bag.

The East Side matrons swathed in mink, the graying ponytailed musicians and even the sprinkling of children at St. Peter's Church on East 54th Street last Sunday would have made Daphne Hellman smirk with quiet satisfaction.

The purified pellets were dried and smirk with KBr pellets and analyzed by Thermo Nicolet Quator instrument in the diffuse reflectance mode operating at a resolution of 4 cm−1.

And he can have some sort of private smirk with the camera.

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He smirked with satisfaction.

"No, I didn't," Christopher says, smirking with annoyance.

Then he smirked with the mischievous grin of a 9-year-old weaned on politics and Abraham the Democrat.

But its surprising threat to pull up stakes in China has replaced the smirks with lavish praise.

Before that, the tone of the movie gyrates wildly: mystical one minute, smirking with a weird gallows humor the next.

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