Example Sentences

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She had been waving her golden pompoms waiting to celebrate the final out at Rock & Brews in what was a nearly perfect effort from the hometown team.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2023

Last month it emerged that debt agents acting for British Gas had broken into vulnerable people's homes to force-fit meters, and that courts had been waving through energy firm applications to forcibly install meters.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2023

The student had been waving emergency crews away, not realizing they were there to rescue him.

From Fox News • Feb. 4, 2022

Lipnitskaya, one of the favorites, said she hadn’t been nervous, even though thousands of fans in the arena had been waving Russian flags and chanting her first name — “Yoo-lee-ah!” — before she skated.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2014

And whilst it had been waving and jumping in my hand, it was steady as iron in hers.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis