How to Use smiley in a Sentence

smiley

1 of 2 adjective

• She's a very smiley kid.
• But the girls have all been smiley and friendly.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• This swirls-and-smiley-face design bring all the cheer.
  — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
• Some people are just freer with their smiley faces than others.
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• Ready for a new forever home, the smiley pup is eager to start anew.
  — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
• In the salad, carrots are sliced thinly and cut in the shape of smiley faces.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
• At just five years old, this smiley Chihuahua mix sure has a lot to be grateful for.
  — The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2021
• Even the plastic bits that cover up screw holes have little winking smiley faces on them.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
• The driver, who has not been identified, ended his plea with a smiley face.
  — Jennifer Earl, CBS News, 12 June 2017
• The normally smiley 24-year-old had his hoodie pulled over his head.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 26 Nov. 2025
• For nails that scream summer, mix cartoon rainbows, smiley faces, and more glittery styles.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 8 June 2021
• The trend itself isn’t new — smiley piercings have existed for years.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2026
• Between smiley photos on the red carpet, the couple took a moment for a quick smooch.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2023
• Sources told the outlet that the pair had a smiley chat, while White's date was also seen rubbing his leg.
  — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 1 June 2026
• And her father carries a very smiley 7-month-old Finnley on his hip.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
• Matilda may only be five months old, but the adorable youngster is certainly just as smiley as her mom.
  — Clare Fisher, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• The Duck Dynasty star captioned the sweet post with a series of smiley faces.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 25 May 2021
• Most recently, the smiley dog made a cameo in a cute Instagram video.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
• After eight years of breeding, this lavender albino piebald ball python has three smiley faces on it.
  — Daniella Mora, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
• Shriver captioned the smiley photo of the pair posing with a birthday cake.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Christine added emoji of a monkey covering its eyes, prayer hands, and two smiley faces with hearts.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2021
• Overall, airports are not for smiley-face moods due to a convergence of factors.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
• The brazen goofiness is applied to the movie’s howl of terror like smiley-face stickers on a gravestone.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
• The couple also kept Sterling warm by wrapping her in a tan and white smiley-face blanket.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2022
• Available in a variety of colors, these smiley sponges work hard to deeply clean your items—without scratching.
  — Blake Bakkila, countryliving.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Just don’t expect a lot of English–the hotel team were smiley and kind, but spoke a minimal amount.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2026
• Two years ago, the smiley gray-and-white pooch disappeared from his home with the Frausto family.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2018
• In the second snap, Taylor joins in for a smiley family photo.
  — Jillian Pretzel, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
• Gone are the days when the most notable Nickelodeon host was simply a block of color with a smiley-face drawn in the center.
  — Jeff Nowak, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2021
• Kim shared a glowing photo of her smiley second daughter admiring her braids in the mirror.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026

smiley

2 of 2 noun

• No word yet on whether the cafes will serve up sherbet in smiley-face cups.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 July 2017
• Pataky snapped a smiley selfie with one of the twins, who was decked out in sports gear.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 26 Dec. 2025
• Chen, in a black polo and cargo shorts, is quieter and smiley.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2022
• There's a reason that children draw smiley faces on suns in their pictures.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 16 Mar. 2021
• This is the new Hadid, the smiley-faced, not at all bored Hadid.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 14 May 2018
• Across the nation, peace signs were as ubiquitous as today's smiley-face emojis.
  — Bob Dyer, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
• At others, workers are asked to regularly log their frame of mind with a smiley or frowning face, or track their moods on apps.
  — Chip Cutter, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2020
• The service was smiley, the marble shiny, and pillows plentiful.
  — Max Abelson, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
• But the newest innovation is the smiley in the center, which only shows up under black light.
  — Fortune, 13 Jan. 2018
• Jenna Bush Hager‘s baby boy is one smiley little 3-month-old!
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• The picture was a cozy, smiley selfie featuring the trio, and appeared to have been snapped in cooler weather.
  — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
• The picture was a cozy, smiley selfie featuring the trio, and appeared to have been snapped in cooler weather.
  — Kayla Grant, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• The picture was a cozy, smiley selfie featuring the trio, and appeared to have been snapped in cooler weather.
  — Kayla Grant, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• Apart from the watch’s vibrant yellow strap, the placement of the signature smiley on its crown ties the piece together.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2022
• The smiley reminds me of growing up in the ’90s, which was awesome (and when freeze tag trumped Twitter).
  — Chloe Moloney, kansascity, 18 Aug. 2017
• The series seemed anxious about portraying anything nasty enough to upset the smiley balance.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• Riley Hein — a smiley, gregarious teen who played trombone in the school marching band — was dead.
  — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
• Colleagues that Slack each other smiley-face emojis stay together.
  — Kelsey Gee, WSJ, 21 May 2019
• Many responded with thumbs-ups and smiley faces, but to others, in a week of vocal support for women, fashion’s mean girls seemed to have gone low.
  — Christina Binkley, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2017
• Since 2015, the consortium has had to choose the hues available for the complexions of smileys.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 28 June 2018
• The next day, the ballpoint pen artist spent 10 hours filling postcards with her tiny smileys, which gave her the idea to keep going until the ink ran out.
  — Melissa Minton, Teen Vogue, 7 Aug. 2017
• Guns shoot smiley-face flags; the male chorus lip-syncs the children’s chorus music and does silly choreography.
  — Micaela Baranello, New York Times, 5 July 2017
• The photo features a smiley Woodley posing with a name tag for her character, Jane.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2018
• Diamond smiley faces and rainbow arrays of gemstones are the specialty.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Dec. 2022
• The brand’s late founder’s spirit felt alive, as distinctive trompe-l’œil prints and the signature smiley symbol appeared on tops and dresses.
  — Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
• Many patients first encountered this new thinking in the form of charts that asked them to point to a range of smiley to frowning faces to indicate where their pain fell on the scale.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2019
• Many of us now use smiley or frowny faces to punctuate text messages, which suggests that language by itself is not as effective as advertised.
  — Frans De Waal, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2019
• The smiley design seems to be inspired by the infamous hotel slippers Justin’s always wearing.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 26 Dec. 2018
• True, some disseminate a few ideas, including niceness — a smiley-face ethos that extends to what might be called diversity lite.
  — A.o. Scott and Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• Madison captioned a smiley Instagram photo of the family of three.
  — Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 20 Aug. 2019