How to Use crack a smile in a Sentence

crack a smile

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Definition of crack a smilenext
  • During a year filled with so much doom and gloom, Tabitha Brown made the world crack a smile.
    — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 14 Dec. 2020
  • His mother could not even crack a smile on the day of the engagement.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Garland didn't crack a smile as laughter filled the room.
    — Evan Perez, CNN, 28 July 2021
  • The audience laughed, but the camera zoomed in on Durant, who didn’t crack a smile.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 20 July 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
  • 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
  • And across other categories, many of the male nominees didn't crack a smile either.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Among their fans: Lovato, who didn’t crack a smile posing for photos but happily paid homage to the Instagram stars.
    — Michele Amabile Angermiller, Variety, 12 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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