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Example sentences for: waved

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

"I couldn't do my current job without them," said Justice Antonin Scalia yesterday as he waved something in the air.
An Air France jet took off, and the loved ones on the ground waved and shouted, “Au revoir!
“No, thanks,” the woman waved aside his offer.
The recent twist has been to note the fact that longbows are traditionally made of yew wood, and claim that the act of drawing the bowstring was called plucking yew; the victorious English not only waved their fingers at the French, but shouted We can still pluck yew!
(For rush to judgment, click .) And while she is literally correct that flags were waved and technically accurate that torches were not brandished, isn't there a deeper brandishing, a rich symbolic brandishing?