How To Use Grinning In A Sentence
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Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
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My monitor fills with images of two men saluting, grinning thumbs up or looking dead serious.
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So maybe you'll get what we call a titty brim," said Tommy Bryant, a veteran north Florida bass and panfish guide, grinning.
Spring Tactics for Big Bluegill from Field and Stream's John Merwin
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I left Chop Suey slightly bruised from getting in the way of an impromptu one-man mosh pit and grinning foolishly, which is the way all the best shows end.
The Parson Red Heads and Blitzen Trapper at Chop Suey | Seattle Metblogs
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As I looked at these mines with their thousands of grinning natives and heard the rattle of gravel in the "jigs" my mind went back to Kimberley and the immense part that its glittering wealth played in determining the economic fate of South Africa.
An African Adventure
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He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos.
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
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Greer slipped into the background, grinning tho, I think he finds it a relief not always to have to be the big kahuna.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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He was aware of grinning, slavering mouths, incomprehensible, whimpering sounds, and fingers scratching at the talc.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The grinning, slithering jackanapes is reportedly going to concentrate his sales pitch on the U.S., suspecting that we Brits would sooner chew our tongues than buy his book when it is published on Sept. 13.
Boycott Blair's Book!
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Stop grinning and tell me what happened!
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‘Thank you, Kait,’ he said, grinning almost goofily.
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Couldn't have been better if I'd cut the orders myself," Zainal said in English, grinning at his success.
Freedoms Challenge
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Casey blushed, her hands full, not being able to reciprocate, but grinning as much as her anyway.
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If you shout, I'll shoot you!" said the old man, in English, grinning horribly.
The Three Midshipmen
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Great action, good characters, good acting, good villains, a good story: I came out of the cinema grinning with delight.
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A bulky parka smothered the individual's identity, but the flared black trousers marked him as a member of Starfleet; grinning, Kirk redirected his course to join his snowsuited comrade.
The Kobayashi Maru
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`I think," said Adam, grinning at the simple faces of the cavemen, `the time has come that you came to us and taught us a few things.
KARA KUSH
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Maybe he asked, because he got an answer -- from the grinning, freckled face bending over him, as he lay, armorless, on a sort of pallet, under the taut stellene roof of a Moontent.
The Planet Strappers
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Too much Affordably Good Design made me want to go straight to a novelty shop in Devizes to buy a toby jug of a grinning trawlerman's head sporting a yellow sou'wester.
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He turned swiftly, favoring his injured leg, lifting the longsword threateningly -- then relaxed, grinning.
Conan
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The shots of her grinning like a lunatic on the beach, or posed in stockings and basque, were not enough.
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Zipping up the skinsuit well in advance of the finish line, he took the flowers with ease, punching the air with his right fist before grinning broadly and throwing his arms skyward.
Bart Wellens wins 2011 Cauberg Cyclocross
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He came back with a bruise on his cheek where the troll had hit him with a wooden bowl, and grinning like a mad man.
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Aiden watched us both warily, uncertain as to why we were grinning crazily at each other.
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For years now, human remains have become exposed in the eroding sand-dunes and it was not unusual to encounter a grinning skull when walking along a particular stretch.
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There is was with a chicken leg in its mouth, grinning in such a way only an emaciated mongrel kitten-cat can grin.
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Not to be outdone, Adams takes over drumming duties, grinning like a loon.
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‘Yes, ma'am,’ said our director, grinning like a loon.
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You! called a grinning guy in a tuxedo with a forty-ounce bottle of Coors in his hand.
Goodnight Nobody
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Then he noticed Andrew acting strangely, grinning and waving, talking gibberish to himself and fidgeting.
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He popped the phone into his trouser pocket and, grinning at Rory, proceeded to strip down to his drysuit, placing his clothes and boots next to his backpack near the edge of the bridge.
Be My Enemy
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The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments.
Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
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He swept his finger along the surface of the mantle and turned to her, grinning.
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Grinning, I decided to head outside for an evening stroll, sick of being indoors due to having been cooped up in my room for the past few hours.
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The city's 130,000 inhabitants chat languidly in doorways, grinning at locals and passing tourists.
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There was Mark, in all his geeky glory, grinning goofily in a black-and-white photo.
Jerry Zezima: "Get the Picture?"
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The cool linen sheets tempted her to extend her toes till they touched the ivory bedstead and brushed the relief curls of a grinning cherub.
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He must've thought I was grinning at him, so he smiled back and even gave me a little wave.
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She's wearing a skintight vinyl dress, chewing gum and grinning mischievously while rubbing her arms vigorously against her sides to make the dress creak and squeak.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps that's the legacy of being the frontman, spending your early teens grinning good-naturedly on gormless kids' TV shows and in gormless pop magazines.
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I grin at thee, thou grinning whale!
Moby Dick
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Out of the Blue's "Dead Gnome" line features garden gnomes with pistols in their mouths, or holding up the dripping heads of decapitated brethren, industriously sawing their own hands off, hanging from a gibbet, grinning glassily at the arrow that's pierced their heads, and so on.
Boing Boing
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And behind that grinning face lay a treacherous, poisonous personality.
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Her ruby red lips were grinning slyly as she placed her arms around her lover's neck.
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At their feet, the artist painted a weird shape that turns out to be a grinning skull when you hold the picture at a slant and view it in the right way.
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He was aware of grinning, slavering mouths, incomprehensible, whimpering sounds, and fingers scratching at the talc.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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They're both grinning, almost idiotically.
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You can see wicked witches, grinning goblins, and hallucinating hags!
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He was grinning like a washwoman standing at a fence with basket full of dirty gossip.
Men Don't Leave Me
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A newspaper clipping, laminated, was taped to the side of the station, with a photo of a big grinning guy smiling into the sun.
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The grinning German was outwitted by a simple tactical switch from the canny Saints boss which turned this thrilling encounter on its head.
The Sun
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The _bambino_, to express his agony, was _grinning from ear to ear_.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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The older girl stopped short and looked over her head, grinning like a maniac.
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For MG, his clash with the cosmopolitan forces of capitalism and Communism are merged--they are both the grinning face of the devil, and they are absorbed & subsumed in the person of some ancient deicidal tribe.
Philocrites: That 14th-century religion.
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Every gapper-mouth zany grinning at me, and scoundrels swearing that I get my share!
Mary Anerley
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I don't watch TV v. often but having to watch Carville throwing Republican money-poo at the audience on Larry King last night was not pleasant ... and his grinning minny side-kick was damn right creepy ...
Obama-Supporter Patrick Leahy Calls On Hillary To Drop Out Of Race
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We got her all established, then sat around for at least forty-five minutes like the goons we are, grinning and commenting on her every action.
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One young acolyte has such a rictus from grinning at his master's jokes that it looks like a physical affliction.
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The Expert Temp grinning broadly behind the staff member sensed this, and leered at me.
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He would see himself mouth angry words back at the idling grinning shopkeepers, that would wipe away for ever the pasty smile off their faces.
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I sat there in the slipstream grinning the grin of a man who's spent 20 years motoring and was now doing something so much more exciting.
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By now more than one third of the class was grinning broadly or chuckling to themselves.
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Ah Duo watched from the porch, grinning.
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Shielding the bright sun from her eyes with a suntanned hand and grinning widely, she opened her arms and the girl leapt gleefully into them.
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The church is still there, as is the row of grinning stone skulls above the entrance, indicating it was used for burials during the Great Plague of 1665.
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A picture of a grinning, freckled teenage boy was on the right. On the left side was a shot of a young woman in a graduation gown and mortarboard.
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Hamlet," and then create a revulsion of feeling by somersaulting over the centre-fire of the circle and standing on his head before it, grinning diabolically at the incensed pot?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
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Septach Melayn, grinning a broad shameless grin, turned and lifted his hand, showing it agleam with great round ten-royal coins.
LORD PRESTIMION
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Grinning toothily through her mouthful, she chuckled, spraying popcorn.
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He was aware of grinning, slavering mouths, incomprehensible, whimpering sounds, and fingers scratching at the talc.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Grinning from ear to ear, he clapped and cheered the day I walked across the stage to receive my Bachelor of Arts degree in history.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad
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In fact, all we can do is confess our 'Kantian' ignorance at the limits of science as metaphysics and not be so determined to do all the foolish things ignorant people might wish to do, such as crossbreed man and chimpanzee, or produce chimeras of the type Dawkins so grinningly finds he would inflict on those less 'rational' than he.
Darwiniana
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Shortly after take-off, a television monitor inside the spaceship showed Tito in a white spacesuit decorated with an American flag on the shoulder and a Plexiglas helmet, grinning broadly.
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I had been grinning all morning, especially when Mesa and I succeeded in cutting some difficult cows from the herd.
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The refectory is a large room, with a long narrow table running all round it – a plain deal table, with wooden benches; before the place of each nun, an earthen bowl, an earthen cup with an apple in it, a wooden plate and a wooden spoon; at the top of the table a grinning skull, to remind them that even these indulgences they shall not long enjoy.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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Although the group still stressed positivity, there was nothing here of the dopey, grinning hippie stereotype of a year before.
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If you get completely plastered, and wander home inanely grinning at passers-by, you're not a problem.
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Mark concourse was munted by then his stated aim for Truck this year and even did a bit of crowd surfing, which was nice; and Nervous Test Pilot himself was grinning like a fiend and dripping all over his technology in quite an impressive way.
Truck 2006, yes, already
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This, and Sam having found the hay and oats, not forgetting the ale, very good at this small inn, first made me take the fancy of resting here for a day or two; and I have got my grinning blackguard of a piscator leave to attend on me, by paying sixpence a day for a herd-boy in his stead.
Redgauntlet
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‘We'll go shopping to pick you up something to wear,’ she said grinning happily at me.
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Mild-mannered Stanley morphs into a confident, grinning hero.
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One of the merchants shook a fist at her and yelled something and she waved back at him grinning.
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In looking across the street, I saw my rival standing at his shopdoor, grinning and clapping his hands at my apparent downfal.
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life
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He's being such an immense monomaniacal divvy about Anthony that his cycle of grinning wildly or crying his eyes out keeps speeding up with every passing day.
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I wish you would stop grinning like a Cheshire cat and try to be serious.
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When I regained consciousness, Ms. Chickie and Lee Artist were standing around me grinning, which is never a good thing, and admiring my beauty.
A Kettle of Vultures
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She kept grinning, looking so cute and charming in her little pinafore dress, but every once in while she would look at me with that evil smile and my skin would crack a bit more.
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It lit at once, and a nondescriptly handsome young man was grinning toothily out of it.
Null-ABC
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He got out, opened the boot and pulled the bedsheet out, grinning at Heike who said hello to him in the form of a suppressed smile.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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In all of the pictures, her mother was grinning like a Cheshire cat.
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As the moon arose, the wind got higher, and chopped round to one point north of west, raising a perkish head-sea, and grinning with white teeth against any flapping of sails.
Springhaven
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Then the expression cleared and he was grinning at John.
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He walked out of the pool, grinning widely.
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Not to be outdone, Adams takes over drumming duties, grinning like a loon.
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The tap-tap boy with the crooked gaze stood in the open doorway, grinning as usual.
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A lean , swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently.
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He was puffing slightly and grinning like a maniac.
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An American cackle, piercing my ear, and I shuddered away by instinct, which was sound judgment, for if I felt dreadful, she looked worse, a raddled slattern grinning her stinking breath into my face, reaching out a fat hand across my chest.
THE NUMBERS
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Three little girls ran to the door grinning toothless grins.
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What stands out is not the grinning sarcasm with which the Italian has taken to fending off repetitive questions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dreams in which Billy wore a Postal Service uniform and grinningly accompanied the mailman on his hellishly appointed rounds.
Baby Games
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I always found myself embarrassed when confronted with pictures of scraggy or sagging wives and overfed, grinning offspring.
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He beat his fists on David's arm, and David soon let him go, both boys grinning widely.
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Vaslav Nijinsky rose to stardom as the golden slave in Diaghilev’s ballet, Scheherazade, appearing “in brown body paint, and grinning, and wound with pearls — not so much as a sex object but as sex itself, with all the accouterments of perversity that the fin-de-siècle imagination could supply: exotism, androgyny, enslavement, violence.”
Scheherazade Goes West
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Confused, I turned around, scanning the lunchroom for Justin and there he was, still grinning like a god, a new, different girl on his arm, nuzzling into his cheek affectionately.
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I'm totally against fox hunting (and a friend of mine died while sabbing a few years back, and I'll bet he's grinning right now wherever he ended up).
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Decaying corn teeth champed loosely under deep black eye sockets, grinning, Mind your manners, my dear!
Meeting the bony woman
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‘Your Highness, forgive me for saying so, but you look absolutely ravishing tonight,’ he said smoothly, grinning at her charmingly.
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Even though it was night, I instantly regretted having left my sunglasses on the living room coffee table, because this grinning, horse-toothed brother had the nerve to have gold initials carved into his front buckteeth, and a hoop nose ring as if they needed further attention.
A Kettle of Vultures
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I used to know how to say "Did you ever participate in an Air Raid?" in Serbo-Croatian, from an Army manual from WW2, and when I lived in NYC & went to Chinatown functions frequented by local pols, my girlfriend taught me to say "Are you corrupt?" in Mandarin - all the grinning ignorant Public Servants reflexively replied "yes, yes" when I asked them, to the delight of the Chinese at the table.
An idea to save newspapers (Jack Bog's Blog)
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I cut off both thoughts and gave the answer I had given my grinning, chiacking, companions.
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I signed it without speaking, incredibly delighted, grinning like a maniac.
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Walk on and you find more of those signposts with the boy's face, and in the last ground floor room two walls of gridded photographs of the head of Horn's niece, variously smiling, grinning and girning.
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That bit where he throws himself back grinningly onto his bed with his hands clasped behind his head?
Times, Sunday Times
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A seaman at my elbow screamed and stood up, tearing at a sumpitan dart in his arm; as I dived for the cover of the rail another stood quivering in a cable a foot from my face; Brooke leaned over, grinning, snapped it off, tossed it away, and then did an unbelievable thing.
Flashman's Lady
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Three days later, Gawain and I answered the door to a newly lip-pierced individual who was grinning like a madman.
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Cleve paused, grinning, as though he might include me in his account of the insufficiency of intelligence.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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As for her Cousin Martin ( "Marty" everybody called the gangling, grinning, idle ne'er-do-well of fourteen), Janice was inclined to be utterly hopeless about him from the start.
Janice Day at Poketown
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Last Sunday was the festival of All Saints; on the evening of which day, we walked out under the portales, with M. and Madame de —, — minister and his wife, to look at the illumination, and at the numerous booths filled with sugar skulls, etc.; temptingly ranged in grinning rows, to the great edification of the children.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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It has to express the personality of a stoner, grinning, funny and kidlike.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hands pulling him in over the inflated rubber gunwale, his eyes open now, Patrick grinning, Mel heaving herself up beside him.
CORMORANT
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Taking advantage of her distraction, the swordsman-in-training managed to splatter a handful of mud across her face, grinning when she glared at him.
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Her friend laughed and even Sadie couldn't help grinning a little.
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Acknowledging the basic fruitlessness of human existence is important, but so is grinning.
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‘Hi Kait,’ Mark said when he reached her, grinning conceitedly.
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A man with a carefully oiled black quiff is introduced to me by a grinning volunteer as Shakin' Stevens.
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Maybe I'll find my pension by happening across its grinning proprietress as she wanders the streets trying to snare lost holidaymakers in the morning.
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‘Don't start without me,’ he said, grinning slit-eyed at Harkol.
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However, he was only following the precedent set by the spineless grinning 'spiv' Blair who constantly referred to and talked about:
Army Rumour Service
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Kate done some dandy shortarm work in the clinches and hurled him off on his back like the other one; then he stands there sharpening his claws on the bark and grinning in a masterful way.
Somewhere in Red Gap
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Shorty, the Japanese half-caste, clown that he was, dancing and grinning on the outskirts of the struggle, with a final grimace and hysterical giggle led the retreat across the poop and down the poop-ladder.
CHAPTER XLII
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He was grinning as he set off at a lope for home, already framing his reply in his mind.
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In front of him stood a masked man clutching a knife in one hand, grinning eerily at him.
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Even jogging, while seemingly harmless, has encouraged damp, smelly and sanctimonious people to stride down our streets with grinning notions of moral superiority.
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It was a wooden figurehead carved in the shape of an embowed, cheerfully grinning dolphin—worn, wormholed, its paint flaking with age; the original figurehead of the schooner Enterprise, that Stephen Decatur sailed against the Barbary pirates at Tripoli, four hundred years before.
THE WOUNDED SKY
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And saw the ginger-haired black lesbian grinning at her.
A HERO FOR BOBO • by Rena Sherwood
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Lannie sat on the floor, grinning happily, as a puppy cocker spaniel, Pounce, jumped in glee around her.
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Most of it's true, unless she's been saying I'm some kind of crackerjack forensic pathologist," Claire said, grinning.
1st to Die
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Shaker gave a loose salute, and the grinning ensign tapped his forehead with a finger.
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Corbett took his seat, trying to ignore de Craon who was grinning as if he had suddenly found something amusing.
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He comes unstuck at the curtain call, where his lack of training shows in a grinning, gormless bow from the waist.
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`And here I thought I could sweet-talk you into teaching me more about the samba," Sabrina said grinning at Siobhan.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Inside sit grinning students dressed in full fire regalia, ready to learn about road safety.
Times, Sunday Times
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The guy was grinning and had dark brown curls and ice blue eyes.
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Gail marched after the man enthusiastically, followed by a rather nervous Emy, a dismal Mary, and a grinning Nora.
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Then, in stroll momentary vocoders, radioed-out vocal repeats, reverbed guitar/keyboard hits on the chorus, plus everything but a Stock/Aitken/Waterman disco ball, and suddenly, you're grinning your ass off.
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She was grinning wickedly at the three, and they bit their lips simultaneously with regret for not eating that morning's meal.
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Only the honking of a car horn behind us, telling us that the stop light had turned green, sobered us up enough for Matt to start driving again, but he couldn't help grinning.
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The figure on the throne was grinning maliciously beneath the blackness of his hood.
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Grinning and overly cooperative, Corran proceeded to bow, make a strange sign over his head, and do a kind of soft-shoe shuffle over to a mat in the corner of the room.
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Who can respect a simpering ninny, grinning in a Roman dress and a full-bottomed wig, who is made to pass off for a hero? or a fat woman in a hoop, and of a most doubtful virtue, who leers at you as
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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"My friends ditched me, " answered Brice, coming level with us and grinning.
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But he stopped grinning before the afternoon wore out, for I set him climbing and clambering for little pieces of mundic and tiny patches of garnets in all the toughest places I could find in that mine, and went into ecstasies over each individual piece, until I had quite
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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There they stand, high lonesome's sweetest harmonizers, singing their hearts out in white suits and pink shirts, backgrounded by flames and the grinning scarlet figure, half-comical, half-terrifying, of a 16-foot-tall plywood Satan.
In and Out of Harmony
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A tall, gangling man with shaggy brown hair waved to her from his doorway, grinning broadly.
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Loud cheers and slight screams were heard all around me and I turned to Zach grinning.
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My smile is fifty thousand watts of thirty or so remaining teeth, happily grinning without a gomphosis in a trembling mandible.
I Know Where the Yakonan Have Gone
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Both boys were grinning widely, showing off all their teeth.
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I leaned over to the other Australian lawyer, who was also grinning kinda goofily in the firelight.
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My lord was smiling, so the auctioneer prattled on, and the deformed creature upon the catasta wound his ill-shapen body into every kind of contortion, grinning from ear to ear, displaying the malformation of his spine, and the hideousness of his long hairy arms, whilst he uttered weird cries that were supposed to imitate those of wild animals in the forest.
"Unto Caesar"
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`Just a funny internal feeling," Ryle said seriously, but he was grinning as the door closed behind the DST man.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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Grinning, Jay placed a pink umbrella and a curly yellow straw in it and slid it over the table towards her.
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Grinning, Jem bends down and chucks Chelsea under her chin.
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`... and the three-speed gearing took a bit of getting used to,' Flynn was grinning.
TICKLED PINK
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Can you imagine being chased across a lake of petrol by a grinning madman with a cigarette lighter?
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Chancing a look in his direction, Eve observed that he was grinning.
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Well, Jack," said the big Lord, grinning, "arede me the riddle, and then we shall see what is to be done, as thou sayest.
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
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With his sleeves rolled up, his apron well splashed, his coppery hair more or less in disarray from the occasional thrustings of a soapy hand, and his face flushed and eager like a healthy boy's, Red Pepper Burns stood grinning down at his patient.
Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular
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He is grinning and fizzing and very excited.
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What's odd, however, is the sheer fervour with which he's using them, eyes blazing, grinning like a devotee of a particularly ecstatic religious cult.
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As I was coming around a corner I ran into a large man heavily laden with camera equipment standing stock-still grinning at a tiny orange butterfly resting on his jeans right above his left knee.
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If she were seen holding a stem of beardtongue blossoms to admire their color or stooping to touch the spikes of jimson leaves, some would solemnly call her mazed in the head not to know beardtongue when she saw it, and others would wonder, grinning, was she so wit-scoured as perhaps to eat jimson?
Cold Mountain
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With my office covered in amaryllis and tulips, I've been grinning all day long!
Spring is Springing!
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She found a nice red T-shirt and turned to see Jessica grinning and modeling her clothes behind her.
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Don stood in the centre of what had become a riotous assembly, grinning sheepishly, enjoying the pats on the back.
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The harshest critique I heard was from my dad, who grinningly said "It sounds like you're having too much fun.
Interview: Michael Arnzen
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Stop grinning and tell me what happened!
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It's silly and patronising and, anyway, even the most witless bores in society have long since moved on to grinningly saying "simples" in a daft foreign accent at the end of their sentences.
You're the prime minister, Cameron. Please stop behaving like the David Brent of British politics | Sam Delaney
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The foreign secretary sat grinning a few places along, manspreading his thighs like some potentate.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mild-mannered Stanley morphs into a confident, grinning hero.
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It is at this moment that we find Sophia, hopping home with a bag slung over her shoulders, grinning broadly.
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Rae looked to his left and saw a large, hulking man standing behind the store's counter, grinning openly, revealing the man's lack of dental hygiene.
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As he stood at the door, a tall young stripling, dressed in what they call a smock frock, with a pitchfork in his hand, came up and, taking his station a little on one side, began to view him from head to foot, scratching his head and grinning.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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He fired point-blank at the grinning skull resting against the doorpost.
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One-Eye floundered down on deck, grinning appeasingly and failing to hide the fear he had overcome but which still possessed him.
THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN
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The man was still grinning from ear to ear.
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We pushed through the unhinged door, grinning in breathless exhilaration.
THE MANANA MAN
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They drank, sharing the bottle, Orphan grinning inanely.
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT 1/5: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar
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I tottered about the streets, grinning bitterly at perfectly respectable people.
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They'll all be there with their snouts in the trough; all grinning smarmily and slapping backs; all trying to outdo each other with acts of screaming political correctness.
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Almost as nutty: Actor Gabriel Macht—remember that beautiful and naughtily grinning "modelizer" on "Sex and the City"?
Hollow Points and Cream Puffs
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Brian asked, grinning as he swayed easily with Cloudy's excited cavortings.
Chronicles of Pern, First Fall
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The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments.
Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
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He turned back to stare at me as he was hauled off and he was still grinning.
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He could hear the burble of a small stream and quickened his pace, grinning when he saw the water.
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The next night in Alleppey, I stop for a quick hors d'oeuvre at the Raheem Residency after all the diners have gone, except for one couple -- a radiant older German man, bald and grinning, and his "dinner companion", a young thin Indian boy.
Karin Badt: Alleppey Continued: a German Man and an Indian Boy (v)
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To our astonishment, Denis was grinning at us, and was even now heading in our direction.
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He pounded one hand on my back, grinning like a maniac.
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What matter for the arrow-head, illegible stuff? give us the placid grinning kings, twanging their jolly bows over their rident horses, wounding those good-humored enemies, who tumble gayly off the towers, or drown, smiling, in the dimpling waters, amidst the anerithmon gelasma of the fish.
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
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'Hello my lovebirds,’ said Tony pleasantly, grinning down at us.
