She smiled, joy radiated around.

Meaning: When she was happy, her happiness made everyone around her happy too.

Choice of Words: She is a pronoun referring to a female person. Smiled means she expressed happiness or pleasure with her mouth. Joy is a feeling of great happiness. Radiated means it spread out in all directions. Around refers to all the space near her.

Alternative Expressions

She was smiling, her joy was evident to all.

Meaning: This sentence describes how a woman is smiling and her happiness is clear to everyone around her.

Choice of Words: Smiling is the present continuous tense of the verb smile, which means that she is in the action of smiling. Evident means that something is clear and easy to see. All means everyone.

Her smile radiated joy, filling the room with warmth.

Meaning: This sentence describes how a woman's smile spreads happiness to everyone in the room, making them feel warm and comfortable.

Choice of Words: Radiated means that the joy spread out from her like light from a lamp. Filling means that the joy made the room feel full. Warmth is a feeling of comfortable heat.

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