WAVING in a Sentence

Learn WAVING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

315 example sentences for WAVING, such as:

1. The rich man waved the beggar away.
2. The waves beat against the sea shore.
3. The wind made little waves on the pond.
4. The wind blew the waves into great peaks.
5. Sound waves cannot travel through a vacuum.

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 Meanings and Examples of WAVING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
waving
 n.  (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
 n.  one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Then they were off down the walk at a rush, mounted their horses and, followed by Jeems, went down the avenue of cedars at a gallop, waving their hats and yelling back to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  He stumped rapidly to the group, waving his cane and shouting and, because he could not hear the voices about him, he soon had undisputed possession of the field.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The Munroe boys tore past waving their hats, and the Fontaines and Calverts went down the road yelling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  The live oaks with their waving curtains of gray moss gave Scarlett the creeps and always brought to her mind Gerald's stories of Irish ghosts roaming in shimmering gray mists.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  Her bowing and waving were abruptly halted when Pittypat entered the room, panting as usual from climbing the stairs, and jerked her away from the window unceremoniously.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  To her surprise, words came out as coolly and naturally as if there had never been a war and she could, by waving her hand, call ten house servants to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  She snatched him up into her arms and he awoke, waving small fists and slobbering sleepily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  Gerald was stumping across the furrows, waving his cane.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  She stood rooted, unable to move from the position to which she had leaped when she heard his words, staring at the old man who stood feebly waving a letter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  The other officers hovered helplessly about, whispering and waving their hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  "Oh, yes," he said, waving his hand negligently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  Kennicott had borrowed Jackson Elder's red and white English setter, a complacent dog with a waving tail of silver hair which flickered in the sunshine.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  Softened neither by snow nor by waving boughs the houses squatted and scowled, revealed in their unkempt harshness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  The last thing she saw on the station platform was Kennicott, faithfully waving his hand, his face so full of uncomprehending loneliness that he could not smile but only twitch up his lips.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  Then, waving to them, she lost them down the long train shed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (105 in 8 pages)
16  The president waved at the crowd from the steps of the plane.
17  The rich man waved the beggar away.
18  Romanov waved his hand as he continued to stare at the pre-war, faded photograph of the two men.
19  You smiled and waved with me, step by step out go farther.
20  Then he said: "Something told me 't if I didn't come back and get--" He shuddered; then waved his nerveless hand with a vanquished gesture.
21  The winds blow across the sea, pushing little waves into bigger and bigger ones.
22  The transatlantic liner forged ahead through the waves.
23  It is hard to avoid stormy waves when you are sailing in rivers;and it is hard to avoid brambles when you are climbing rugged mountains.
24  The waves beat against the sea shore.
25  Sound waves cannot travel through a vacuum.
26  My heart beats her waves at the shore of the world and writes upon it her signature in tears with the words, "I love thee.
27  The wind made little waves on the pond.
28  The wind blew the waves into great peaks.
29  The boat rolled heavily in the troughs between the waves.
30  The little bird skimmed over the waves looking for food.