“She merely beamed a fatty beam. She was almost ponderous, and pink, with a tendency to a double chin.”

“She beams at me and it’s almost enough to make up for the fact that I’m harder than trigonometry right now. Almost.”

“Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”

“Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to motivate people to do?" Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational ... stuff.”

“When she looked through the dark windows at the stars, they had long beams like wings...”

“Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.”