Example sentences for: nods

How can you use “nods” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Certainly I, for one, was taken in at first by his solemn academic tone and groaned at the prospect of having to write a moralizing corrective--“Even Ober nods,” “Physician, heal thyself”--spare us!

  • Questions about the president's sex life won Issue 1 nods on all the shows.

  • "[I]ts laurels weren't just nods to jingoistic values in a time of social upheaval."

  • But were it not for the 1920s, and for the historical value of the Nazi and East German documents, this collection might rival Ruritarian Photographs of a Century , with its obligatory nods to every passing wrinkle of fashion devised elsewhere, its dull portraits of statesmen unknown outside the fatherland, its honorable but unexceptional petits maîtres . This, from a nation which invented the Leica, comes as something of a surprise.

  • It nods to expertise by anointing Citizen Kane (1941) the greatest American film, then largely abandons expertise.


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