Example Sentences

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On fair days the sun flashed from white fleets of "wavies," bound through seas of April skies to far Arctic ports.

From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.

We would never have been such good friends," said Nan on one occasion, "if I hadn't wanted to go to your house, Gabriel, to see how your grandmother wavies her hair.

From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Harris, Joel Chandler

High in the air, invisible, migrating wavies winged into the south, the distant gabble of their passing falling weirdly earthward.

From Deep Furrows by Moorhouse, Hopkins

September waned, and the laggard rear-guard of the brant and Hutchins geese, riding the first stinging northers, passed south in the wake of the wavies.

From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.