Sample Sentences forwinsome (auto-selected)
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Joe sang with such winsome charm, I had to remind myself that he was the same person who had tapped into the electricity of the house next door and who was, by his own admission, dodging process servers for financial transgressions of God-knew-what proportion.† (source)
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Or winsome?† (source)
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It was a far different woman from the one at church—the winsome fisher wife serving tea and coffee.† (source)
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These thoughts, these flashes of light, that innocent winsome gesture, this Japanese car—all more or less appropriate to the landscape.† (source)
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For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.† (source)
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'Nelly, will you keep a secret for me?' she pursued, kneeling down by me, and lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it.† (source)
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Tears came to his eyes as he remembered her childlike look, and winsome fanciful ways, and shy tremulous grace.† (source)
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But what astonished mc: Kitsey, who always held my hand at a slight distance — tugging me along behind her, winsomely swinging my arm like a child playing London Bridge—was nestled deep and sorrowfully into his side.† (source)
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He had a peculiar charm, a sort of winsomeness that's pleasant to remember even now when I picture it, though, of course, I think of him still as a schoolboy in cricket flannels.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I say phony because Mosby, a Virginia colonel, was not related to me in the slightest way; the story, however, was both passably authentic and colorful and I told it with drawling embellishments and winsome sidelights and bravura touches, savoring each dramatic effect and in the end turning on such slick medium-voltage charm that Leslie, eyes ashine, reached up and grasped my hand as she had at Coney Island, and I felt her palm a little moist with desire, or so it seemed.† (source)
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Dad shook hands with all the men, patted the children and smiled winsomely at the women.† (source)
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Because the reporter was rapidly becoming a man something of his man's appeal, combined with the winsomeness of the boy, stirred the heart of the lonely woman.† (source)
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She gave me a winsome smile.† (source)
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She would name each item that struck her fancy in the window and if I was not moved by its charm she would winsomely explain why I should be charmed and we would continue our walk.† (source)
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The features were of great beauty, almost girlish in modeling, and Conway found in their winsomeness a curiously personal appeal, even across the barriers of time, death, and artifice.† (source)
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Winsome but Wicked.† (source)
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