Bellamy, nursing a mood blackly malcontent, fumed over every halt dictated by the winking semaphore lights of the traffic towers.
And yet it was some seconds of tense listening before he let himself down to the ground again, and with his hand in the grass let out a tiny winking flashlight, no more than a firefly would flicker, and out again.
The flash light was on its last breath of battery, and blinked asthmatically, winking out into a thread of red as the boy pressed it eagerly for one more look.
What about Stark's mountain and the winking light?
A carriage was passing on the road like a fantastic shadow with a jingle of bells and a winking eye.
I know it," said Foma, winking his eyes slyly, satisfied that he had already read the secret of his father's life.
The old man raised his head slowly and, winking his large eyes, looked at Foma.
Charlie, winking his eyes at the blinding glare of the light.
A quarter of a mile up the beach was a life-saving station, and a light could be seen winking from one of its windows.
We'll make an honest man of you--instead of a trimming politician, trying to say or to do something more or less honest once in a while and winking at or abetting crookedness most of the time.
I think you are falling into the commonest kind of error--doing evil and winking at evil in order that a good end may be gained.
Billy Kane mechanically made his way out along the passage, the flashlight winking in Whitie Jack's hand behind him.
With his arms around two of the girls, drinking now and then from the great goblet three more were holding, and winking and laughing at the extra two, he made his joyous way down the petal-strewn paths of Central Park.
Nothing seemed to disturb him as the Procession wound on, and he was laughing uproariously and winking and nodding at his worshippers as they sang and played all around him, and the hours went by.
Ay, my friend," said Roldan, with dignity, winking back the tears started by various emotions.
And home again we plodded While the Polyphemus nodded With his battered moon-eye winking red and yellow through the dark.
I Across the seas of Wonderland to Mogadore we plodded, Forty singing seamen in an old black barque, And we landed in the twilight where a Polyphemus nodded With his battered moon-eye winking red and yellow through the dark!
His eyelids kept on winking as if bidding away importunate tears.
Don Rocco squirmed in his chair, winking hard, and frowning heavily.
Don Rocco squirmed, winking furiously, as if he were fighting against secret anguish, and breathless, as if words were trying to break forth involuntarily.
Tullus saw the unmanly manœuvre, but winked at it, and rushed likewinking upon the Fidenates, who ran so fast that their discretion completely out-ran their valour.
Unable to look their danger in the face, they were sent winking and sneezing to destruction.
Marie Josephine sat back against her pillows, winking her eyes rapidly to keep the tears back.
For the campaign," he said, winkingand hurrying away.
I might as well wipe off the slate while you're flush," he observed, winking at Sam.
Rad was trying hard to keep up his appearance of gay spirits, chucking Chokie under the chin, and winking playfully at Rufe and Wad.
She even permitted herself to be amused; and, retiring behind the sand in her eyes, which she made a great show of winking and laughing away, she waited to see what he would do.
Because his grandpap asked too many questions," replied Ol' Mistah Buzzard, slyly winking at the others.
Yes," replied Striped Chipmunk, winking at Grandfather Frog, "and now we are going back home perfectly happy and satisfied.
A similar winking movement is caused when a blow is directed towards the face; but this is an habitual and not a strictly reflex action, as the stimulus is conveyed through the mind and not by the excitement of a peripheral nerve.
A start from a sudden noise, when the stimulus is conveyed through the auditory nerves, is always accompanied in grown-up persons by the winking of the eyelids.
The mere involuntarywinking of the eyelids, though often repeated, does not bring tears into the eyes.
Even the expectation or chance of injury would probably be sufficient, in the same manner as an object moving too near the eye induces involuntary winking of the eyelids.
It was not that he discerned in them any miraculous quality of living, still less of winking or sweating as images are reputed to wink and sweat for the faithful.
It was of streets like Keppel Street that they would have dreamed, with the Stag Light winking to port, and the west wind blowing strong astern.
Nor that pinking and winking with thy odious eyes, as my charmer once called them.
Mrs. Bevis presently returned with an answer (winking and pinking at me) that the lady would follow her down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "winking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
