Example sentences for: wave

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

  • Some say it comes from the word schreien which means “weeping” as it was a place where sailors’ weeping wives came to wave their men off to sea.

  • The aging analysts packed into the auditorium, sweating through their dark clothes in the September heat wave (only a small desk fan recycled the stale air), would have confirmed the Berkeley English professor and professional Freud-basher's darkest suspicions about psychoanalysis as a cult of personality.

  • Young men play soccer on the sand or join the tourists in a volleyball game, while the eager beach masseuses rustle up a new wave of business.

  • Overlooking the main swimming/fishing beach, the 13th-century citadel is one of the few buildings to have survived the earthquake and tidal wave of 1755.

  • Which is where they remained for the next 20 years, discredited and humiliated, until the next wave of feminist activism came around.


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