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Example sentences for "slight smile"

  • You seem to appreciate the idea of your guardian's return," says Cyril, with a slight smile, having read half her thoughts correctly.

  • Perhaps, then, it was when he was making love to you," with a slight smile.

  • Perhaps if I told you something bad about myself it might make you feel more kindly disposed toward me," with a slight smile.

  • You see," with a slight smile, "I hold myself in such good esteem that it never occurred to me others might find my company disagreeable.

  • Another equally unknown to her, followed close behind the first; and she sat down again, murmuring with a slight smile, "I frighten myself needlessly.

  • It seems that in the last particular you were wrong," the prince remarked with a slight smile.

  • Presently with a slight smile he sat up again.

  • With a slight smile, Philip watched him thunder-cracking disgustedly along the dusty road back to civilization.

  • Through the film of smoke it loomed vividly dark, impudent, ironic, the mobile mouth edged satirically with a slight smile.

  • He glanced at her occasionally with a slight smile.

  • His hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a slight smile he began to examine his nails.

  • She looked up at him with a slight smile.

  • Not to your knowledge, I think," Mrs. Odell replies, with a slight smile.

  • I see," said Shirley with a slight smile.

  • Now Mabel understood, and even Mr. Willing allowed a slight smile to steal across his face.

  • Guess the young man has gone back to the consulate in a huff," said the consul with a slight smile.

  • Accident," replied Bristow, with a slight smile, and volunteered no further information.

  • If you were happy--you would be happy," Mrs. Carpenter said with a slight smile.

  • To look after that little girl you thought I had forgotten," he said with a slight smile.

  • Arrested (no doubt by my wild and excited appearance), he stood still and looked at me, and as he looked a slight smile began to dawn upon his lips.

  • That was he standing before me, with a slight smile.

  • Gouache, raising his eyebrows with a slight smile.

  • No, father, I cannot," answered Giovanni, with a slight smile.

  • So you make a solitude and call it peace," said the lady, with a slight smile.

  • With a slight smile Le Breton watched her.

  • It would be refreshing, to say the least," he remarked, with a slight smile hovering on his lips.

  • With a slight smile he listened to all the Frenchman had to say.

  • And," she added with a slight smile, "while we are still ready to sacrifice our lives even for the cause of liberty, we cannot steer clear of the whirlpool of fashion if we are to remain in the city.

  • Then as the young man left the room he added with a slight smile, "I have to be stern with the blades when there are ladies about, else they would have time for no other engagements.

  • There was a slight smile on General Gates' face at her manner of speaking, but it died quickly as he ran his eye down the written page.

  • Unravel the matter from the beginning," he commanded, with a slight smile at her confession of diplomacy.

  • Corse de Leon was looking at him with a slight smile when he turned round; but, in a few minutes after, the brigand rose, left the room, and returned with the two young men whom Bernard de Rohan had seen before.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slight smile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    become less; eyes fixed; heavy force; little garden; local treatment; pounds could; requesting information; slight changes; slight depression; slight elevation; slight excess; slight inclination; slight modifications; slight rise; slight smile; slight touch; slightly arched; slightly beaten; slightly bent; slightly different; slightly flattened; slightly hairy; slightly less; slightly pointed; slightly rounded; slightly salted