How To Use Waving In A Sentence

When the dork came to bat, he was waving the bat back and forth with the label aimed straight at the pitcher. WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR?
We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
The almost desperate character of the effort to silence or drown out antiwar protests suggests that something more than mindless flag-waving is going on here.
The flag waving was decorous, the cheering polite and the umpire was never once insulted.
According to what he could gather from the conversations, this officer had been paying off the military and they had been simply waving him through each day. Mordidas

Several thousand supporters of Lesotho political parties, waving the multiple colours of party flags, on Monday participated in a demonstration against the "usurped" government of Prime ANC Daily News Briefing
And then, he saw Nathan waving a hand, signaling him to come closer.
After the semi-final, more than half a million people gathered in the Champs-Elysées, waving French tricolours alongside Algerian and other African flags.
All else was a seemingly endless field of grass, tall, yellowing and waving gently in the warm breeze.
No matter what flag-waving, hot blooded xenophobic ‘patriots’ will tell you, one person alone will never be able to change history.
Bones stopped at the gate only because Uncle Bean stood in front of it waving his arms.
Half a dozen creatures'manlike except for the snakiest necks either had ever seen-came thundering along the corridor, waving spears and shouting. Fortress Of Frost And Fire
You gummed the pieces with sheer delight, making mmmm, mmmm noises and waving your hands like some beauty pageant winner on a float being pulled down Main Street.
A wide aperture will take care of the background but I don't want any blurring of grass waving in the foreground.
Like a magician waving his magic wand, McGrath took on the guise of Merlin as he wove his magic, enrapturing his team-mates, opponents and adoring masses.
Alex and Rhena were all revved up with horsey mania, so around the city we clippety went, with our womenfolk waving to the passing trams.
Crowds lined the route, waving flags and cheering.
Next day it was done, with baby Jesus smiling happily and waving from the sleigh. Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing
The villagers all line the dock, tears welling in their respective eyes, waving a mournful farewell to the departing sailors.
Perhaps the fist is not a fist, but a waving hand; perhaps the voice is not a cry, but a call. David pichaske | 3 poems « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
He therefore withdrew from an inner pocket an odd object with little waving legs and a rubber-bulbed horn for a body. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Children waving flags greeted the Russian leader.
But before she spoke Ms Morris was accosted by a placard-waving group of about 20 protesters demanding that they should be paid all year round, not just in term time.
Eat the chicken, not the paper, he said, waving the half-eaten chicken and bun in her face before putting it down on the wrapper and then sliding it toward her. Are We The Dining Dead?
The exuberant first dance sequence brings to the New York streets a multiethnic rhythm nation of cuties in halters and hip-huggers, all waving little American flags.
John did this by waving a small quartz crystal pendulum over the resistor, which was either passing current, or not - depending on the position of a simple flip-flop relay inside the circuit box.
When he traveled within the country, streets would be closed and would be lined with schoolchildren waving flags and singing national songs.
Jessica had gotten into her perky attitude, and was waving her green and white pompoms in the air even when they weren't doing a choreographed cheer.
But the ceremonies are likely to be resisted by some young Britons, who are naturally wary of what they regard as flag-waving patriotism.
You were all smooth and deep voiced there on the dance floor and yeah, I went back to your place after only one drink, but I was intrigued, but once you pulled out that technological terror you call your "sithhood" that was the end of that, but you kept waving your hand "the phallus is not at all scary" and I didn't have any choice but to agree, but now I've got these sores, and the droid at the clinic says they're contagious bitch! Calgon, Take Me Away
Staff passing by the windows of his sealed ward would see him jumping on his bed and waving to them, without a stitch of clothing on.
According to a South Korean news agcy report, North Korea's leader is waving off any notion of additional nuclear tests. CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2006
The cheerleaders who were already occupying a big table in the center did the DSV cheer in their seats, waving their pompoms around noisily.
To the bitter end he kept waving under her nose a brochure of their dream house across town.
Joy's an unabashed, flag-waving patriot who joined the Air Force to serve his country.
Banner-waving supporters demonstrated and held prayer vigils on Hill's behalf.
I stared at the cigarette the girl was waving in front of my face.
I was just about brushing my teeth in Fajuyi Hall, OAU, when guys in different halls began to shout all over the place. everyone tuned up their radios and the whole campus went gaga ... there was an unarranged parade on the streets, students who hadnt had their bath thronged everywhere waving makeshift flags of victory, beating drums and dancing all over the place ... JUNE 8 AND THE DEATH OF ABACHA
The usual evolutionist hand-waving and bait-and-switch tactics were employed in a grand piece of propaganda.
The anemone fish shelters within the waving fronds of the anemone host, enticing other small fishes into the anemone's trap.
I think: I'll have bushes on the left-hand side where she's walking because that's more frightening than the open fields, and then on the right I'm going to have some of those distorted trees you get in East Anglia, distorted by the winds – some of them look like witches, waving witches' arms; very sinister. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft
‘The reaction was like whoosh,’ she says, waving her hands in front of her face.
She took in a deep breath and wondered if she looked like a mystical sorceress with all her hair waving wildly about her.
While Hannah was using a blanket to swat out flames on the ladder below the top of the cupola — waving away helpful servitors and even a voynix that had come in close to protect the humans from harm — Harman and two others had finished poking inside the fiery furnace and had just opened a “taphole,” allowing what looked to be yellow lava to flow down wooden troughs to the beach. Ilium
Right or wrong, Rumour was very busy; and Lord Decimus, while he was, or was supposed to be, in stately excogitation of the difficulty, lent her some countenance by taking, on several public occasions, one of those elephantine trots of his through a jungle of overgrown sentences, waving Little Dorrit
Leave them to sleep quietly and wake slowly, to soothe themselves with softly waving reflections and shadows of trees on the ceiling? The Sun
As the bus left, she faded into a blurring hazy picture waving from behind the cloud of dust.
The rolling hills stretched out before them, the grass waving in the wind.
I overshot the house where he was staying, so he ran off the porch and ran down the middle of the street, arms waving; I did a U-turn and drove back at him, weaving all over the street.
Maquettes, for example, are models built to help explain an architectural or sculptural commission to people who are no good at understanding arm-waving and verbal explanation: [A maquette] is used to visualize and test shapes and ideas without incurring the cost and effort of producing a full scale product. Archive 2008-08-01
The soccer fans indulged their patriotism, waving flags and singing songs.
Stop laughing!" he warned her, waving his sword threateningly ... or at least in a manner that he imagined was threatening. Darkness of the Light
The arm-waving sophistry that tries to escape this fact just makes evolution look bad — like whiny wishy-washery. 2006 February - Telic Thoughts
The Pilbara is gentle and serene in a good Wet, with spinifex waving like wheat on the flats and the heady smell of fresh country.
Bruce threw his infantry reserve into the battle, the arrows of the English archers wounded the men-at-arms of their own side, and the remnants of the leading line were tired and disheartened when the final impetus to their rout was given by the historic charge of the "gillies," some thousands of Scottish camp-followers who suddenly emerged from the woods, blowing horns, waving such weapons as they possessed, and holding aloft [v. 03 p. 0355] improvised banners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
The necktie is crucial in the willy waving contests that are business and politics. What Is Your Necktie Hiding? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
All this means construction vehicles, traffic detours and arm-waving, red-stick people abound.
A man passed her, then a woman with a baby carriage, the baby inside waving a pacifier.
Then he noticed Andrew acting strangely, grinning and waving, talking gibberish to himself and fidgeting.
Within moments she was waving back at Guiseppe and Maria as she crested the hill in the direction that Pietro had taken her, and was soon following his trail down the other side.
At best, they receive a few quizzical stares, a couple of thumbs-up signs and a desperate waving of white flags.
A marine with diarrhea is being chased by a Japanese soldier waving a bayonet. US soldier with BAR | My[confined]Space
She was waving her goodbyes like a queen leaving her loving subject.
There I was disgusted to find undisguised American 50s housewives waving to their hubbies when they left for work. KAMN Show #46: Fahrenheit 451 : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
This president is despised and ridiculed even in the face of flag-waving calls for national unity.
As necks craned and flashbulbs popped, Amir emerged from behind the audience and walked through them, smiling and waving his arms.
Yeah, I know, I probably deserve to be bitch-slapped, so quit shaking your head and waving your finger at me.
How do you walk downstairs in heels, waving giant fans, singing a song, looking at these guys like you love it.
His dark hair fell to his shoulders, waving slightly in the breeze.
From the wide common over the thick waving fragrant grass came the sweet country music of the white sleeved mowers whetting their scythes and the voices of the children at play among the fresh-cut flowery swaths. Weatherwatch: Midsummer in Wiltshire in 1875
PROUD Army heroes are given a massive welcome by flag-waving crowds as they parade through the streets of a town yesterday. The Sun
It cues our hate to keep us watching, like a bullfighter taunting a bull: waving red to draw our attention and anger.
Visitors flocked in steamers from Glasgow's Broomielaw to promenade under waving palms.
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road. The Awakening
He waved to them and they waved back, but they didn't know they were waving to their old playmate Marmaduke, he was so mixed up with all the children of the woman who lived on the canalboat that looked just like a shoe. Half-Past Seven Stories
She was waving to them, a grin from ear to ear on her face.
February 17th, 2010 at 7: 29 pm tombaker says: harmando thinks using teenage girl text-message acronyms is awesome, because he’s a sober and serious, intelligent grownup, and not a hopeless poser loser waving his boogerfinger around in territory that does not welcome him or his “ideas”. Think Progress » Confused Karl Rove Falsely Accuses Obama Of Having ‘A Little Bit Of Confusion’ About Stimulus Jobs Numbers
With a flat band of silver olive leaves about her brow, and the soft hair waving out below, nothing more was necessary for a costume save a brief drapery of silver spangled cloth with a strap of jewels and a wisp of black malines for a scarf. The City of Fire
He remembers an elderly nurse waving under his nose what he presumed were smelling salts and his initial instinct to push her away. Times, Sunday Times
He lives in the lonely lands where mighty rivers twist in long reaches between the barren bluffs; where the prairies stretch out into billowy plains of waving grass, girt only by the blue horizon, plains across whose endless breadth he can steer his course for days and weeks and see neither man to speak to nor hill to break the level; where the glory and the burning splendor of the sunsets kindle the blue vault of heaven and the level brown earth till they merge together in an ocean of flaming fire. Frontier Types
How my heart palpitated with delight when, through apertures in the envious boughs, I at once caught the gleam of your graceful straw-hat, and the waving of your grey dress — dress that I should recognise amongst a thousand. Villette
‘The kids just love these,’ I say, while waving a bag of strawberry bonbons over my head.
From the centre of this footstalk rises a bundle of filaments that encircle the style, stamens springing also from the insertion of the leaves of the corolla, lining it with delicate beauty and waving their slender forms with exquisite grace. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
The hostile crowd included dozens of placard-waving children who stamped their feet and called for the pool to be saved.
Flag-waving is but a quadrennial affair, when the German soccer team marches off to the World Cup. Those Reassuringly Dull Germans
He is in a Maori cloak and waving the tino rangatiratanga flag on the side of iwi, who the coalition suggests will be granted ownership rights, mining rights, development rights and veto rights that might impinge on Kiwis 'rights to visit the beach. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have crowded in Cairo's Tahrir ((Liberation)) Square, chanting and waving flags as they rally for President Hosni Mubarak's immediate resignation.
The bumpy road took us through ramshackle villages and dusty towns past waving schoolchildren in white uniforms. The Sun
At one point the linesman was the busiest man in the ground waving his flag furiously every few minutes.
Shader" is a term pulled from the 3D graphics world; it refers to small programs that create 3D effects, like the rippling motion in a waving flag. Wired Top Stories
Such knee-jerk flag-waving is anathema to Banville, a writer who despises nationalism in all forms.
The 300 or so demonstrators were in a good mood, laughing, waving signs and banners, beating home-made drums, and, thank goodness, shouting some new chants.
By half way, he was gaining on his rival, with the crowd waving their banners frantically. Times, Sunday Times
Did you practice waving the green flag as the honorary starter for the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway.
I watched her walk to the gate and stand there for at least 5 minutes, then a woman walked over and let her in and stood waving and gesticulating at her in a angry manner.
There was a wedding today in the village: all these women in full African dresses, waving palm fronds as they marched from the church to the house for the party …. Archive 2005-07-01
The fete is Oscar-like, with a daunting line of photographers and smartphone-waving bloggers and fans. Fly Girls: TV series follows flight attendants at home and in the air
But whoever it is, waving to the exultant crowds, he will have become a legend.
Waving his good Samaritan off he inserted his key in the door and pushed it open with his shoulder. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
The bull was busy with the matador at the time,but it suddenly caught sight of the drunk who was shouting rude remarks and waving a red cap.
I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.
The men were frantically waving their arms around to indicate they were in distress.
For all their utility as traffic wardens and deputised keepers of the peace, there are also the satgas that kidnap opposition pamphleteers, beat up journalists, and chase rivals down the main street waving machetes.
From its subterranean source, the Wekiva meanders slow and clear past waving sawgrasses and under a moss-draped canopy of oak and laurel and longleaf pine.
The anniversary of the dawning of freedom for the subcontinent is not all about flag-waving.
Waving posters and banners, the students rallied against corruption, collusion and nepotistic practices.
He was waving the gun crazily.
Waving his right hand over the candle, the wick suddenly flickered, then formed into a flame, which lit his cold room.
All the kids started jumping up and down and cheering and waving.
Once they fired a volley at a row of mullen stalks, waving on the brow of a hill, and once a picket shot at his own horse that had got loose and had wandered toward him in the dusk. Mark Twain: A Biography
The baby wriggled, all limbs kicking and waving happily.
Waving a fist at the camera, Cameron Nielson recited the names of those blacklist casualties he had avenged at last.
I am reminded of the politics of the post-bellum era - in which average-to-below-average Republicans in the North could be elected by "waving the bloody shirt," i.e. referencing their seemingly prominent roles in the Civil War to win the support of Northerners. Republican party
You have to be waving that antenna and ready for a little transmittance. Crystal Chan: Mother Mother's Ryan Guldemond Exercises "His Right to be Loud"
The waving of imaginary cards. Times, Sunday Times
He has bought and sold his way to the top table through turning solid products into flag-waving brands with a mixture of luck, timing and innovation.
The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sittingroom, -- these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion. Essays: Second Series (1844)
Afterwards, waving smiley good-byes as the screen door slammed inside the last manure-footed fly of the season, we would pretend this was the most enjoyable and relaxing sojourn ever undertaken by the Midwest kinfolk; who now are worn out, corn-fed, under-financed, and facing several hundred miles of back-breaking, exhaust-choking, bug-splattering, road-hog crowded highways returning home. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 609
Waving polite hellos, I pretended to listen into what was turning out to be a very boring conversation about stocks and bonds.
One day, after waving goodbye to his daughters, Tyawan descended into the valley.
And reading without anything to visualize is sort of like chewing on hay – it’s bland, to say the least; or even worse, it’s like walking in the dark waving your hands around looking for something to grab on to. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Now. Yes, now.
Sure enough, the flags waving high in the streets of the city bore the crest of Northwind, where Jessie's husband, Ben, was Duke.
President Bush again smeared opponents of the Iraq war last night, accusing them of “waving the white flag of surrender.” Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 29, 2006
As soon as the doors opened, I saw a balding man in a sweatsuit waving the sports section of a newspaper around and shouting frantically into his cell phone.
She was dressed in green camouflage and waving a banner that Ford couldn't read, since it was backwards.
C. TREDWAY: And the last videoconference, she actually ran to the screen, saying, "dada," waving. CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2003
Alex looked up from the barren flower bed and noticed a woman standing by the forest waving her arms and calling out to him.
For him to claim that two morally equivalent sides were fighting it out is staggering: he is equidistant between a poisoner and the medical crew waving an antidote.
The story is told of a goalkeeper who kept waving to his girlfriend in the grandstand every time he saved a goal.
After washing, he stepped to the door of the "smokery," struck a match on the leg of his pants, held both hands around the end of his cigar while he lighted it, then waving the match to put it out, he threw it down and came in. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
The blacksmith, having just purchased a shoulder of mutton, is triumphantly waving it in the air.
During the 1977 strike, firemen recall the police waving their overtime payslips in front of the picket lines.
Usability & design unity; Or, arm waving ramblings: wikified documentation to save Linux 'horrible help system and add more inline help Titanium nanoparticle pollution cancer link; Morgellons via agrobacterium vectors, hemp oil again, plus today's WTO Swiss riot Canadian discovers hemp oil cures cancer ... hoax or another typical moment in the pharma-industrial-death complex? HongPong.com
On the left one giant specimen of amole, reared from a base of exquisitely waving leaves, ran up the side of the drawing and broke into an airy and graceful head of gold-hearted white lilies. Her father`s daughter
Then disaster struck (and I'm not sure what exactly happened), as I woke up to find the engines at full power reversing away from shore with Nicholas waving frantically.
Fat gilded cupids sprawled abandonedly above the cupboards, tooting horns, waving their draperies, and generally looking as though they had been imbibing some of the more alcoholic wares of the shop. Dragonfly in Amber
By half way, he was gaining on his rival, with the crowd waving their banners frantically. Times, Sunday Times
I was on the edge of my seat, listening and watching with gaping mouth as Kennedy was playing, stamping his feet, waving his bow, sweat pouring down the back of his bright orange t-shirt.
The reason became apparent once we reached the reef, because on the upper surface no bare rock was visible, just masses of soft coral trees waving in the sub-aquatic breeze.
The silent roadway looked like a long riband of polished silver, flecked here and there by the dark arabesques of waving shadows.
That is a good exit strategy for all small businesses, although no one is waving chequebooks under our noses just at the moment.
Now, by stealth and with no political flag-waving, this may be the end of the rich queue-jumping over the poor.
In summer it stood in the midst of a waving garden of buttercups and whiteweed, a towering mass of verdant leafage, a shelter from the sun and a refuge from the storm; a cool, splendid, hospitable dome, under which the weary farmer might fling himself, and gaze upward as into the heights and depths of an emerald heaven. The Village Watch-Tower
I could see a marshal on the finish line waving a yellow flag.
On such days she would usually go out into the fields or the marsh, often as far as two miles, and when she grew tired would sit down on the hurdle fence, where, lost in dreams, she would watch the ranunculi and red sorrel waving in the wind. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
“Yez, dats more like it,” Besteel said, waving his weapon at the herd. The Search For WondLa
Waving Iranian flags and pictures of Ahmadinejad, the crowd crushed into the restraining bars, some of them shedding tears at the presence of their scruffily bearded hero. Let the Swords Encircle Me
I yelled loudly for Mom, who was downstairs in the kitchen, microwaving broccoflower and listening to Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson sing To All the Girls Ive Loved Before on her boom box. I'm Perfect, You're Doomed
She raised one hand in a fluttery gesture, half shielding her face, half waving John from her. AN OLDER WOMAN
That fundamental conflict between consumption and conservation has both sides of the molecular forestry debate waving environmental banners.
I have a new desktop picture - Emin waving Azerbaijani flag in front of the UN building in New York. Global Voices in English » Azerbaijan: Citizen media in defense of detained activists, bloggers
They came out from the shelter of the cedar forest with a rush, yelling furiously, each man waving his long jezail in his left hand, while a long curved tulwar, keen as a razor, flashed in his right -- big, stalwart, long-bearded, dark-eyed men, with gleaming teeth and a fierce look of determination to slay painted in every feature. Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills
I can imagine even Charlemagne waving that cumbrous label impatiently aside, though Noyon mixed with Laon was his first capital. Everyman's Land
Bulls are colour-blind, so it is yet another myth that they are enraged by red shades; they react only to the fervent cape-waving.
Observe the reeds waving as you pass. Tropical fish ignore you.
Hospital staff were outside to welcome him, waving flags and applauding.
Babbling brats would congregate near my truck, waving their miscounted sticky change in little grubby fists.
It taps into everyone's memories of the kind of school nativities where Joseph insists on waving at his mum, the inn-keeper decides there's plenty of room at the inn after all, and every parent resents the girl who got the role of Mary. This week's new theatre and dance
Waving the spy photos, making jokes about the air samples the plane had allegedly been sent to gather.
He had tried to rob the off-licence on Swinley Lane, Wigan, waving the sword at the woman assistant before vaulting the counter, only to find he couldn't open the till.
They have that whisper and waving of secresy in secret scenery; they beckon to the bath; and they conjure classic visions of the pudency of the Goddess irate or unsighted. Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2
Huw Edwards was reduced to encouraging us to peer behind the palace's nets when, finally, the royal couple emerged: some waving, a kiss, another kiss, and a flypast. TV review: why be there when you can watch instead?
Her eyelids open even more as she struggles to focus on what I'm waving under her nose.
The bumpy road took us through ramshackle villages and dusty towns past waving schoolchildren in white uniforms. The Sun
On another similar occasion they rode their bikes, all seven of them, into the Big Yard of St Mary's College hooting and tooting, waving their blue and blue ensignias, raising hell, so to speak, until they were chased out.
Instead, she is standing on a corner in Edinburgh's New Town, clutching a large, flowery bag, waving like a maniac.
Jerusalem Day accurately portrays the Israeli public discourse regarding the political status of the city: a great deal of ceremonialism, slogans, and a sea of waving flags, but very little relevant substance relating to the root of the city's conflicted reality, and realistically examining its future possibilities. Ir Amim: Reflections on Jerusalem Day in an Impoverished, Extremist, and Divided City
Steffan Rhodri's Paul is the archetypal Ayckbourn male bully, David Armand as the cuckolded John is all restless, arm-waving energy, and Reece Shearsmith as Colin has the bright-eyed bounciness of the truly insensitive. Absent Friends - review
Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Gates and other U.S. military leaders have quite rightly thrown cold water on the prospect of any significant Western military intervention, including a "no fly zone," which, as U.S. military leaders have rightly pointed out, would not simply be a matter of waving your magic wand and saying "no plane flying for you," but would require bombing Libya's extensive anti-aircraft missile capabilities in order to let U.S. planes own the sky. Robert Naiman: In Libya, Diplomacy Could Save Lives and the World Economy
They spent the sixties knocking their country over dinner and waving banners at a liberal president.
My mind is seared by the memory of our arrival at the orphanage, a group of girls aged 7 to 10, smiling, laughing, waving to us from a balcony.
Children waving flags greeted the Russian leader.
He had his chair tipped back on its two rear legs and was waving his ever-present cheroot around animatedly, managing not to spill his martini in the process.
And I saw a bee the size of my thumb in the nest, waving feelers at me angrily.
It's head-to-head combat, and neither of you has any intentions of waving that white flag of surrender.
Outside Vealös we had the pleasure of waving a last farewell to a man to whom the expedition will always owe a debt of gratitude, Captain Christian Blom, Superintendent of the dockyard, who had supervised the extensive repairs to the Fram with unrelaxing interest and obligingness. The South Pole~ On the Way to the South
When an American-flag-waving delegation of their Alexandria hosts, Tenants and Workers United, briefly marches in a lane of traffic, blocking cars, the trekkers stick law-abidingly to the sidewalk. Trail of Dream students walk 1,500 miles to bring immigration message to Washington
Someone let loose with a blood curdling rebel yell, and a woman tore off her shirt, and climbed astride her boyfriend's shoulders, waving her arms wildly over her head. The Dead Goat Society
People have been waving tricolours at the matches for decades.
That one minute, we are waving flags and singing the praises of living in a diverse community and the next, braining people over the heads with flag poles while justifying a fear of those who are different with the least shred of shame. Alvin McEwen: Maybe the Terrorists Did Win on 9/11
At every intersection, in every town, there was a traffic policeman or two, waving us on.
The gale is breaking," he told me, waving his mittened hand at a starry segment of sky momentarily exposed by the thinning clouds. CHAPTER XXXVIII
A group of prisoners stood on the roof, defiantly waving banners and throwing stones.
I don't like players waving imaginary cards at officials to get an opponent in trouble. The Sun
Though stationary, they keep up a constant sculling or waving motion with their fins, which is exceedingly graceful, and expressive of their humble happiness; for unlike ours, the element in which they live is a stream which must be constantly resisted. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
I noticed as the day wore on today that some of these people -- and there are some that are teenage boys, some of them middle-aged men -- for the first time, they were waving kind of disconsolately at us as we drove by. CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003
As they describe Capote's effervescent monologue, you can almost see him sitting on the beige cloth couch, legs crossed, waving his arms around as if starring in his own movie.
a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know
After a lot of perfunctory goodbyes, and Cess waving to the bus as it pulled away while dabbing at his eyes with a hanky, Brownlegg beckoned everyone to the backseat while he had a sly smoke of his panatella.
Furthermore, this portrait symbolizes the patriotism felt in this country with the three American flags waving in the background.
Anything topical is now a week old, and I'm out of the loop ... or on the outskirts waving frantically. Archive 2009-03-01
Male dancers stomp and leap while waving pieces of cloth and jingling bells.
The stadium literally buzzed with proud mums and dads, brothers and sisters waving tinsel pompoms and cardboard placards, and schoolmates excitedly discussing how they would vote.
I looked around and saw Cliff waving his arms frantically, because he was being swarmed by some local bees.
So we will see more rain due to a cold front that is kind of fluctuating here and waving back and forth. CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2007
I saw red fish, blue fish, stripy fish, fish with polka dots, urchins, giant clams, sharks and acres of variegated coral waving hello.
I saw the terror-struck faces, and the frantic waving of their arms!
Such was Whittier on one side, a militant poet of reform, sending forth verses that had the brattle of trumpets and the waving of banners in them: Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
Lucie and Manfred were standing nearby, waving the general good-bye.
There were the large bushes of thorn, the 'nabk' ... springing up, like the fruit-trees of the more inland parts, in the very midst of the waving wheat. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern

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