emoticon
Example Sentences
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“To all the Tweeps who decided to make today your last day: thanks for being incredible teammates through the ups and downs,” she tweeted with a saluting emoticon.
From Washington Times • Nov. 18, 2022
Others had grown suspicious of his emoticon use: one wrote that anyone “who uses the ‘!?’ emoji is totally a middle-aged man.”
From Washington Post • May 11, 2021
She wrote back with a sarcastic smiley emoticon: I believe it will be updated.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2020
If they write “Mrs.” in an email, I correct them in my response with a winky-face emoticon.
From Slate • Nov. 7, 2019
I offered to give him my own T-shirt, but he said no because he couldn't think up anything new to name my emoticon scar.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
