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Example sentences for "waved"

Lexicographically close words:
waukin; waukrife; waun; waur; wave; wavelength; waveless; wavelet; wavelets; wavelike
  1. Toots Warrington is always waved and netted, and all the girls by that time had got earrings and were going round waved and netted too.

  2. Once some one came to the entry door of the Hall behind us and waved a lamp, which the wind promptly extinguished.

  3. He was mounted on his magnificent black horse, and waved his hand defiantly at the advancing line.

  4. To his surprise, however, the man of science waved the book aside, and the boys could see in the moonlight that a new light, foreign entirely to their usual mild radiance, beamed in his eyes.

  5. The first ragged man beckoned to them, and the fat, paunchy official waved his hand in token of dismissal.

  6. They had been traveling due east through the night, and he waved his hand as he spoke, toward the left bank of the stream.

  7. He waved his hands above his head and rushed straight at the man with the rifle.

  8. He waved this aside with a shake of the head and a toss of the hand.

  9. She moaned and waved her arms despairingly.

  10. This knight----" He waved the game out of consideration impatiently.

  11. He shrugged his shoulders, waved his white hand, lifted his eyebrows and smiled, obviously excusing himself to himself for his participation in anything so puerile; and then opened it slowly.

  12. The St Kildans ran round the rocks to a spot where there seemed to be less surf, and waved on the boat to follow.

  13. Demming's dejected bearing grew a shade more sombre: he waved his hand, a gesture very common with him, and usually denoting affable approval; now it meant gloomy assent.

  14. The vagabond waved his hand with a feeble assumption of his familiar gesture.

  15. She lifted her head, and Demming waved his hat at her.

  16. Then, having waved his hand at his hat, the cracker slouched away.

  17. Now look northward around the other half of the horizon, and instead of countless peaks crowding into the sky, you see a low brown region, heaving and swelling in gentle curves, apparently scarcely more waved than a rolling prairie.

  18. The ship moved off as soon as I was seen on the moraine bluff, and Loomis and I waved our hats in farewell to the many wavings of handkerchiefs of acquaintances we had made on the trip.

  19. I went out on the moraine and waved my hand in salute and was answered by a toot from the whistle.

  20. A thousand handkerchiefs waved frantically up at him.

  21. Joe leaned over the side and waved frantically to Mr. Hubbard.

  22. He stopped them on the second landing, pushed open a door and waved them inside.

  23. Disregarding the danger of being run down in the dark he stepped to the center of the road and waved both his arms and shouted at the top of his voice.

  24. The flags attached to our Alpine staffs waved gayly overhead, and the sight of their bright folds fluttering in the breeze deepened the fixed resolve to plant them on Takhoma's hoary head, and made failure seem impossible.

  25. Sheltered behind a pinnacle of ice we rested a moment, took out our flags and fastened them upon the Alpine staffs, and then, standing erect in the furious blast, waved them in triumph with three cheers.

  26. Gudule he was met by the canons, who waved incense before him, and placed him on the Emperor's prie-dieu.

  27. Liege was silent, the sword fallen from the hand which had waved it as a signal for the massacre, and the proud head of the conqueror brought very low.

  28. Here the Duke waved his sword on high, and shouted, 'Vive Bourgoyne!

  29. Thrombley looked at me for a moment as though I had been speaking to him in Hottentot, then waved his hands in polite exasperation.

  30. He jerked Streak up shortly, intending to ride for the point where the tarpaulin was being waved before it was too late.

  31. Anyway, they waved somethin' an' got the herd started.

  32. Mary saw them ride in and she ran to the door and waved a hand to them.

  33. The Governor waved a half--consumed cigarette until its ash fell.

  34. He had waved protestingly at sight of the new money, and now again he blushed.

  35. She clasped her own slender hands over her own heart as she said this, and there was a pathetic little catch in her voice as she waved farewell kisses to the throng.

  36. Henshaw waved this aside with his own cigarette and began to make marks on the back of an envelope.

  37. Then, regarding the smoke, he idly waved a hand through it.

  38. Just a drop--" The guest graciously yet firmly waved a negation.

  39. So we seem to have come to the end of this affair, gentlemen," he observed as he waved his visitors to chairs on either side of him.

  40. He waved a hospitable hand towards these comforts.

  41. But when they set out for their march, oh, how the trumpets sounded, their armour glittered, and how the colours waved in the wind!

  42. Mr Wilkins waved his wand, and a fresh start was made, but it was more melancholy than the first.

  43. We'll see about that," replied the King, and at once he waved his hand toward the Sawhorse and muttered a magical word.

  44. She waved her hand toward the seemingly solid wall of the cavern and said: "I command the passage to open!

  45. Illustration] Then the little girl stood on one of the big emeralds which decorated the courtyard, and after looking once again at each of her friends, waved her handkerchief.

  46. Evidently the Nome King had made this last attempt to prevent their escaping him; but it did him no good, for when Dorothy saw the danger they were in she stopped and waved her hand and whispered a command to the magic belt.

  47. Both Ozma and Dorothy were much relieved to find the Nome King so jolly, and a minute later he waved his right hand and the girls each found a cushioned stool at her side.

  48. But the others went with Dorothy, and when she came to the middle of the first room the girl waved her hand, as she had seen the King do, and commanded the Tin Woodman, whatever form he might then have, to resume his proper shape.

  49. He approached a wall of the cave and waved his hand.

  50. She kept his arm with definite design while all seven waved the departing vessel good-by.

  51. The tear-dimmed Victorine called gay injunctions to her father, the undimmed Flora to her brother, and Anna laughed and laughed and waved hi all directions save one.

  52. Amid a laugh that stopped half the dance he waved one farewell to sister, grandmother and all and sprang away.

  53. With a swirling mist wetting her fair head she waved in dainty welcome Irby's letter and then pressed it to her lips; not for his sake--hah!

  54. She rallied all her war-worn fairness with all her feminine art, and to her amazement, with a gleam of purpose yet without the softening of a lineament, he said yes, waved permission across to the guard and left her.

  55. Mr. Roy waved to him and he crossed and took us in.

  56. Tall prairie grass waved like the ocean and prairie fires were greatly feared.

  57. She stopped upon observing him below, and, with an air of graceful ease, which made him shudder, waved her handkerchief to him by way of signal.

  58. Their wild and sunburnt countenances assumed a fiercer and more animated expression; all bent forward towards the reciter, many sprang up and waved their arms in ecstasy, and some laid their hands on their swords.

  59. As Fergus waved his hand to Edward, the ranks closed around the sledge, and the whole procession began to move forward.

  60. In about two hours' time, the party were near the Castle of Stirling, over whose battlements the union flag was brightened as it waved in the evening sun.

  61. There was a great pile of quite cheap ikons for the poor, towards which he waved his hand and said, "And I have all these to bless also.

  62. First the archbishop warmly embraced me, kissing me on either cheek and then upon the lips, and then courteously waved me to the seat of honour upon the sofa.

  63. Beside the stage, the branches of the fig-tree waved lightly in the breeze.


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