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Example sentences for "beckons"

Lexicographically close words:
becke; beckets; beckon; beckoned; beckoning; becks; becloud; beclouded; becom; become
  1. Nance Burrill is called upon, and just as she comes forward, Mr. Lamotte beckons the coroner, and whispers a few words in his ear.

  2. Fate beckons you, Leicester Dodson, and, though you proudly set your face against its decree, you cannot avoid the inevitable.

  3. The light divine Before whose awful glow they did not quail Now beckons us; and shall our footsteps fail To follow where they set the blood-stained sign?

  4. There the young dawn's golden fire Beckons to a brighter day, Untrod paths of youth's desire, Heights unconquered far away.

  5. Bishop Cauchon beckons to one of the registrars.

  6. The Bishop beckons to one of the registrars, who brings to him a parchment containing the formula of abjuration.

  7. Raising a hand fragile and white as a woman's, he beckons her to his side.

  8. In twenty minutes he returns and beckons them to come; and, rising, both girls quit the drawing-room.

  9. She beckons him to come a little nearer to her, and silently he obeys the gesture.

  10. Marcia knocking softly at the door, a feeble but rasping voice bids them enter; and, throwing it widely open, Miss Amherst beckons her cousin to follow her into the presence of her dreaded grandfather.

  11. She beckons him to her, noiselessly makes room for him on the couch, and with her finger pressed to her lips motions him to listen.

  12. He goes up to the window and beckons towards the Right.

  13. Signifying my unwillingness to be thus made a circus of over and over again, the officer beckons even more peremptorily than before, and even makes a feint of coming and fetching me out by force.

  14. Appearing before the elevated porch of the menzil, he beckons me to "come ahead" in quite an authoritative manner.

  15. Iago beckons me; now he begins the story.

  16. It beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire To you alone.

  17. It beckons you, as though it had something To impart to you alone.

  18. The red-headed Abigail who attends on Mrs. Connolly beckons him, with a grimy forefinger, to the repast within.

  19. With the other hand she beckons him to approach her.

  20. The landlord beckons from his door, His beechen fire is glowing; These ample barns, with feed in store, Are filled to overflowing.

  21. A brightness which outshines the morning, A splendor brooking no delay, Beckons and tempts my feet away.

  22. Air wave the sunset gardens, The rosy signals fly; Her homestead beckons from the cloud, And love goes sailing by.

  23. He rouses himself with an effort, and, going very softly to a small door that opens from the apartment, beckons gently to somebody beyond.

  24. The ball is at its height, when Clarissa, seeing Dorian, beckons to him with her fan.

  25. And now, when it beckons almost within my reach, when its very breath seems in my nostrils, I must stop for a year's space!

  26. It has been a long trail, Prix, but a longer one beckons with ceaseless insistence.

  27. He loves us sinners with a love that beckons us back to Himself, with a love that promises healing.

  28. No lane is so narrow and foul in the great city, no spot is so bare and lonely in the waste desert, but that thither the sunlight comes, and there some patch of blue above beckons the downcast eye to look up.

  29. Yet, infatuated as I am, prescience avails not; the voice of prudence warns, the hand of Heaven beckons me in vain.

  30. He makes a sign to TENCH, who beckons the Directors.

  31. Life is like a ladder on which man can rise from round to round, to come ever nearer to God on high who beckons him toward ever higher ideals and achievements.

  32. Resonant with the spirit of prophecy, it beckons to all men to come and seek shelter under the wings of the one and only God, in order to disseminate light and love all over the world.

  33. This that beckons is no mirage in the West; it is palpable fact.

  34. But victory is a mirage: this that I thought so fair is but a piece of the desert; the magnum bonum shines, looms, and beckons still ahead!


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beckons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.