Nodding Sentence Examples

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  • She glanced up, nodding slowly.

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  • She smiled, nodding her head in agreement.

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  • She said nothing, barely nodding in response to the various greetings.

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  • Cynthia was there, seated alone in a cramped corner, looking beautiful in something summery, short and yellow, unsmiling but nodding in acknowledgment of his greeting.

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  • Nearly all travellers in the north of Africa mention the Hardhon of the Arabs (Agama stellio), which is extremely common, and has drawn upon itself the hatred of the Mahommedans by its habit of nodding its head, which they interpret as a mockery of their own movements whilst engaged in prayer.

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  • She found herself nodding, accepting his explanation more easily than even Gabriel's.

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  • A'Ran adjusted her one last time before stepping back and nodding.

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  • She sniffed and swallowed hard before nodding.

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  • The growing apex of such a stem will alternately incline, first to one side and then to the other, exhibiting a kind of nodding movement in the two directions.

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  • Her chin trembled as guilt flowed over her and she swallowed hard, nodding.

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  • Might do you good to get out of sight, he said, nodding towards the windows.

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  • Frowning, she rose to see if her Immortal guard was nodding off at his post.

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  • After Elisabeth fell asleep, he watched her for a long while before nodding off.

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  • They are annual and perennial erect herbs containing a milky juice, with lobed or cut leaves and generally long-stalked regular showy flowers, which are nodding in the bud stage.

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  • Jonny, the Black God, hesitated before nodding.

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  • He took an arm of each of the fashionable ladies and paraded one block uptown to Main Street, nodding to potential voters and ignoring the comments Fred muttered behind him that he looked like the crinkled cousin from Hicksville.

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  • Dean ordered black coffee and took an adjacent table, smiling and nodding at the man as he did so.

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  • These can display a mere nodding acquaintance with the English language.

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  • I have seen old friends who had not a tear to bestow on misfortune, " said the baroness, nodding sadly.

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  • I see the noble baroness nodding her assent to that statement.

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  • She would then sit quietly through the rest of the dinner, smiling dreamily and nodding at people, and looking altogether charming.

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  • Nodding donkeys pull out oil from barren landscapes, bubbling in pools over the soil.

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  • One oft saw ladies gently prodding their better half who'd fell to nodding.

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  • Hardcore punk - I love it, smile on face (rapid) nodding head, tapping foot.

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  • The briefest bikini bottom piece extends from the hips into thin suspenders that offer a nodding glance to breast coverage on their journey over the shoulders.

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  • I caught Quinn nodding in agreement, but not Howie.

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  • Donnie tugged at his mother's hem and motioned to the dress, nodding his head.

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  • Look out for its rather dog-eared, pale primrose yellow perianth chiseled, richer yellow trumpet, and slightly nodding poise.

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  • I made her understand, by pointing to a trunk in the hall and to myself and nodding my head, that I had a trunk, and then made the sign that she had used for eating, and nodded again.

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  • Anatole did not release him, and though he kept nodding to show that he understood, Anatole went on translating Dolokhov's words into English.

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  • Pierre, swaying his stout body, advanced, making way through the crowd and nodding to right and left as casually and good-naturedly as if he were passing through a crowd at a fair.

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  • Kutuzov was impatiently urging on his horse, which ambled smoothly under his weight, and he raised his hand to his white Horse Guard's cap with a red band and no peak, nodding his head continually.

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  • Let Monsieur de Beausset enter, and Fabvier too, he said, nodding to the aide-de-camp.

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  • Nodding to Aloysius, she went through to the back and he could hear water running and her thin, tuneless voice singing softly.

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  • Meconopsis Principis - A plant first found by Franchet in Thibet; it comes near M. punicea, but is not so large a plant, and its smaller crimson flowers are held erect instead of nodding.

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  • The nodding flowers come during summer upon hairy stems of 6 to 12 inches, and are cup-shaped, 1 1/2 inches wide, and pale violet or purple with a large cluster of golden stamens.

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  • The blooms are of a deep blue, nodding, and shaped like those of a Soldanella, and it has silver-grey leaves.

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  • It grows from 1 foot to 1 1/2 feet high, and has broad glaucous leaves and nodding flowers, greenish outside and vinous purple within.

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  • L. clethroides, a Japanese species, is a graceful plant, 2 to 3 feet high, with long nodding dense spikes of white blossoms, and the leaves in autumn of brilliant hues.

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  • From 1 to 2 feet high, the flower stems stout and erect, bearing on the upper part numerous pairs of nodding tubular flowers of a rich scarlet outside, but inclined to yellow within.

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  • With their nodding faces and velvety colors, the lightly scented annuals thrive in shivering cold, resist sudden frosts, and provide a welcome burst of color.

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  • Some people may think of seniors as constantly nodding off or napping.

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  • Some children may communicate via gestures, nodding, or very brief utterances.

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  • During the early stages of treatment, nonverbal communication such as pointing, nodding, and use of pictures to express needs, can be encouraged and rewarded.

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  • According to Shelter Off Shore, nodding means the same there as it does in the United States, but shaking your head back and forth will imply that you don't know the answer, rather than no.

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  • Genuine smiles, nodding, and the eyes don't lie.

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  • Being a good listener doesn't mean you have to just sit and listen, nodding and smiling when appropriate.

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  • He was talking to Edith Shipton who was nodding and biting her fingernails, when she wasn't wringing her hands.

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  • Hunter stood off to one side, nodding as if to say he too had done the same thing.

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  • C. pulla, 6 in., purplish, nodding, on slender erect stalks; C. turbinata, 9 in., purple, broad-belled; C. carpatica, i ft., blue, bfoad-belled; C. nobilis, 12 ft., long-belled, whitish or tinted with chocolate; C. persicifolia, 2 ft., a fine border plant, single or double, white or purple, blooming in July; and C. pyramidalis, 6 ft., blue or white, in tall branching spikes, are good and diverse.

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  • Prince Andrew's eyes were still following Pfuel out of the room when Count Bennigsen entered hurriedly, and nodding to Bolkonski, but not pausing, went into the study, giving instructions to his adjutant as he went.

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  • Hulse offered a lifeline for Crewe six minutes later, nodding into an unguarded net from Dave Walton 's cushioned header.

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  • It is a native of Hungary, and is common in gardens, but is often confused with H. abchasicus, a taller and more slender plant, the flower-stems of which are longer, and the blossoms nodding and smaller.

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  • The greater beauty is within the nodding bells.

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  • Meconopsis Nepalensis - s flower-stems 3 to 5 feet high, which are not much branched, the nodding blossoms, borne freely, are 2 to 3 1/2 inches across, and of a pale yellow.

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