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Example sentences for "headshake"

Lexicographically close words:
headroom; heads; headsail; headsails; headset; headship; headsman; headsmen; headstall; headstock
  1. She gave a headshake as noble as it was prompt.

  2. At which Strether had a slow amused significant headshake that made her go on: "You mean that for HER at least he's a new person--that she sees him as different?

  3. Little Bilham fixed it all a moment, and then with a small headshake that diffused a tenderness: "She's too late.

  4. But she turned to the door, and her headshake was now the end.

  5. Then as he gave a headshake which, though slow, was deeply mature: "You won't go?

  6. It was as if he had tasted in the words the wine at the brim; for he gave, under the effect of them, a sudden headshake and an awkward laugh.

  7. Her gay, sad headshake as she took one of them up pronounced for Cora's benefit its funeral oration.

  8. She had a headshake of disenchantment--so far as the idea had appealed to her.

  9. She faced the question as if it were flippant, then with a headshake of dignity she brushed it away.

  10. You'll lose it," she added with a headshake of pity.

  11. Vanderbank gave a headshake that was both restrictive and indulgent.

  12. Mr. Longdon gave a headshake that was both sad and sharp.


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