Example sentences for: waving

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

  • According to the original form of the tale, before the battle of Agincourt, immortalized in Shakespeare's Henry V, the French taunted the English longbowmen by waving two fingers at them, saying that those fingers (used to pull back the bowstring) could never defeat the mighty French.

  • Nicholson shouts workplace banalities while waving his bat: "Have you ever thought for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers?"

  • After the English annihilated the hapless French (10,000 dead French to a mere 29 Brits, by Bill S.'s count), the English responded by waving their two fingers back at the French in the now-familiar gesture (the American version limits it to the single middle finger).

  • You either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever," and many reviewers seem to see the hankie waving here at the boy wonder who a decade ago wowed the critics with The Mysteries of Pittsburgh . As Michael Gorra says in the New York Times Books Review , "Promising is still the word I'd choose" to describe this collection, "but after 10 years and four books that adjective has to seem a disappointment."

  • The first scene is the familiar news footage from 1981: A smiling and waving Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton takes a bullet to the chest.


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