How to Use crack a smile in a Sentence

crack a smile

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• His mother could not even crack a smile on the day of the engagement.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
• Drake hopes her chalk art is able to make others crack a smile in this difficult time.
  — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 18 Apr. 2020
• These little companions are sure to get your giftee to crack a smile.
  — Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2024
• During a year filled with so much doom and gloom, Tabitha Brown made the world crack a smile.
  — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 14 Dec. 2020
• When nothing else seems to work, making silly faces is bound to crack a smile—even if just for a second.
  — Alex Vance, Parents, 23 Jan. 2026
• Parents can join in on the fun—the story is silly enough to make even the biggest kids crack a smile, too.
  — Laura Denby, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
• The audience laughed, but the camera zoomed in on Durant, who didn’t crack a smile.
  — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 20 July 2022
• King handled the situation well, but even such a pro couldn't help but crack a smile at that remark.
  — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
• When asked about his performance, Sullivan didn’t even crack a smile.
  — Jackson Tolliver, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• And across other categories, many of the male nominees didn't crack a smile either.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• At least teaming with Dell allowed Seth to finally crack a smile for the first time in a while.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2024
• So, now is the time to make sure your doormat is ready to welcome people into your home or make anyone passing by crack a smile.
  — Liv Birdsall, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2021
• My intention is always to try to get the audience to crack a smile and enjoy a particular moment of the show.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022
• It’s intended for the audience to occasionally at least crack a smile during the show’s tougher scenes.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
• Anyone weary of cringe-y, performative displays of bien-pensant thinking might crack a smile — or let loose a belly laugh.
  — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• At one point, Leon knocks down the camera filming his owner, prompting TEN to crack a smile.
  — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• Bad Bunny couldn’t help but crack a smile midshoot as traffic stopped and a growing number of young fans clamored for his attention.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2020
• There’s real disappointment in introducing a younger person to a favorite sketch from your past and watching them not even crack a smile.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
• But late Wednesday night, with that defeat avenged and the game tape mercifully retired from the rotation, the senior guard could crack a smile over the whole ordeal.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Nov. 2022
• Both actors use the thin drama—their daughter won’t leave the bathroom and get married—as an excuse to play to the back of the balcony, to mug and grin and do gags, daring you not to crack a smile amid the flaws.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• And at this late date, there is absolutely no point in trying to get the nation’s congenitally crabby reference librarians to crack a smile.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• At a difficult time for America, Super Bowl advertisers ask viewers to take care of themselves and others — and maybe even crack a smile.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
• Each participant plays a character as the day’s situations grow progressively more elaborate – but the one rule that never changes is that nobody is permitted to crack a smile.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Feb. 2026
• Coverage of his personal appearances focused on his obvious discomfort in meeting with strangers and his fruitless efforts to laugh or even crack a smile, which tended to produce only a hideous facial rictus.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• Still, forgive Belichick if he's tempted to crack a smile now that Patriots owner Robert Kraft seems determined to make sure he's got a chance to win another one himself.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
• Everything Is Fine, and probed other pitch-black recesses of humanity with songs about suicide and depression, always managing to crack a smile in the most unlikely places.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2021
• Playfully asked whether an attention-grabbing contract extension might magically make Smith physically able to perform again, Eberflus didn’t even crack a smile.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2022