Example Sentences
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Beckoned by a sister-in-law she didn’t even know she had, Monica, who left as a teenager, is reintroduced to her mother simply as a new caregiver.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023
Beckoned back into the fold, he modeled the new look of Saint Laurent after the rock-chick garb of ’70s L.A.
From New York Times • May 20, 2015
Beckoned by foreign countries with mild climates and a lower cost of living, many retirees view living abroad as the fulfillment of a life-long dream.
From Time • Jul. 25, 2012
Beckoned by Yoda in to the cave of evil, Starkiller experiences a vision of other cloned selves crawling at him from the tree roots.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2010
And like the west behind a sundown sea Shone the past joys his memory retraced, And bright as the blue east he always faced Beckoned the loves and joys that were to be.
From Poems by Seeger, Alan