Sentence examples for would have smiled from inspiring English sources
Had there been a Mrs Stendhal, she would have smiled.
If Lincoln had been in the courtroom, he would have smiled knowingly, and grimaced.
The old Carl would have smiled and thanked him, but his thanking utensil, connected inexorably to his face, was broken.
They smiled at the stockings the way they would have smiled at anything outdated and useless, with pained tolerance.
I suspect the monks would have sucked their teeth in disapproval, but I'm sure Jujol, too, would have smiled too.
Inside the store, I would've smiled at a couple of strangers, briefly chatted with the employee handing out samples, talked to a fellow shopper in line, thanked the check-out clerk and made a silly face at the little girl shopping with her mom.
Twenty years ago, if you'd asked me to say the answer to everything is love I'd have smiled semi-politely and rolled my eyes vigorously in both directions.
Henry would surely have smiled ruefully.
Zawinul, who had a penchant for flamboyant electric-bass players, would surely have smiled at the fleet, bubbly lines Mat Fieldes provided.
Mussina would have been candid enough to concede that the Yankees have been the most dominant organization in baseball for the last six years and throughout history, but he would not have smiled as he declared it.
