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Sentence Examples Not that endless hours of blissful slumber prevented him nodding off during his team's opening match against Japan on Tuesday. There was much chatter, much nodding, then an expectant silence as the interpreter translated. There are moments of humor, such as a scene where a sales representative makes a call on Blake, who is nodding out in a spaghetti-strap dress. He led her to the elevators, nodding hellos to various service people in the lobby. I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding cowslip grow. Prague by day is a melee of tourists, heads cocked skyward, nodding in disbelief at yet another beautiful building. And the two best ways to keep people stupid and nodding is by shutting down the information flow and by stiffing the press. Through it all, Wetterling is rapt, alternately nodding with empathy and jotting down notes on a legal pad in her lap. Anna started to speak to me again, and I listened, nodding, although not really hearing anything she had to say. And they are all reading this right now, nodding their heads in hearty agreement! The nodding blue heads of the agapanthus define a part of New Zealand history. I made sizzurp in my mug and needless to say, the post-show trip to the bar was totally redundant and I was nearly nodding off in my seat. Occasionally he crosses his arms, then uncrosses them as he listens to my every word, nodding in understanding. The blonde grinned and her friends kept nodding like brainless bobble-heads. He is a paper mannequin, making his appearances, nodding and smiling like a bobblehead, saying nothing. We would begin quietly enough, nodding and saying hello to one another in a civilised way. Most of the wolves were nodding to each other and conversing in wolf speech, which consisted mostly of growls, grunts, barks and howls. Both the trappers looked at one another, one fiddling with his slouch hat so it hid his features, the other nodding, nodding, nodding. I knew the nodding pink flowers of thrift, and those white ones with the bulbous base must be sea campion. For the next act of our little drama I sat silently while she complained, nodding my head so much I looked like a sufferer of rampant titubation. Show More Sentences He drove cheerfully on, his round head happily nodding on its little spring as his car bumped along the road. There was a crude, wooden cart pulled by two oxen, whose nodding heads kept rhythm with the gay fringes on their horns. Alicia smiled coaxingly, nodding her head to the little boy's wishes, all the while ushering him in to the house. Fortunately, I have honed the whole smiling and nodding thing to near perfection. And when talking person-to-person, making eye contact and nodding at the right times show that you are paying attention. She glanced across the room and for a second, she fancied that she saw Emily Bronte, an unreadable expression on her face, nodding her approval. I try nodding my head, skanking in a ragga style, foot tapping and finger waggling. I indulged him, nodding my head ever so often and even paying attention to certain parts. Holly looked up at her boyfriend, nodding at his silent agreement to her unspoken request. After a while, the girls had quieted down enough for Shannon to fall asleep and for Sarah to start nodding off, yet again. Wiggins struck gold on the track in Athens last year and is on nodding terms with the American great. By now almost on nodding terms with Aer Lingus's pilots, we booked yet another four-day stint to be sure, to be sure. It helped that I was on nodding terms with the actress he was talking to, so I clumsily barged in. We'd come to shows in our Triple 5 shirts and cargo pants, nodding our heads respectfully and wearing toques. A crowd will slowly build around you, faces immobile, sometimes catching your eye, nodding. Jim walked warily into the drab institutional room, nodding to the inhabitant. One section of the garden is devoted to wildflowers, bluebells nodding gently in the breeze, surrounded by cowslips and violets. I plunked down my cash, all the while admiring the plant with its white flowers so much like the heads of a gaggle of nodding geese. He stands there nodding to every word Mrs. Miller says while sneaking glances around the office, searching for someone to take his place. From the first nodding snowdrops to the last bright tulips, spring bulb flowers proclaim the end of winter and bring back color to the landscape. Show More Sentences So if you've still got some of the sunny flowers nodding on their stalks in your garden, borrow some of their petals. Pinky mauve or white, the dainty nodding flowers are set off by the beautifully marbled dark green leaves. Grabbing up his own rifle, he quickly put several rounds into the transformer on the utility pole, nodding in satisfaction when it blew. But Stewy seemed to take the comment quite seriously, nodding in sombre sympathy as he tuned up his twelve string. The man gave a tight lipped smile, nodding as he downed half the drink and lost his breath. He examined us closer, nodding in understanding when he noticed that we were both sopping wet. Rico continued to give various tips and instructions, Chris nodding his understanding throughout the lecture. Harry shot a glance at me quickly, before nodding his assent and followed the uniformed officer out of the room. Not to anyone's amazement, a woman was found in the audience who began nodding vigorous assent to everything Charles said. He glared down at Alex, who was nodding a greeting at the teacher and slipping his cell phone into his pocket. It's quiet, the woman's out, the kid's asleep, and I am nodding over a notebook and tea, wearing fuzzy slippers. Basic chores done, I gave up and went to sit in the kitchen, where I slumped in my chair, yawning and nodding. He was nodding toward the booth of the Detroit Super Bowl Host Committee, which featured a couch and a fireplace. The salesman at the counter though said not a word merely nodding toward a door behind him. I sighed quietly and looked over at Quinn, before slipping my hand from Jordan's and nodding toward the open door. McNamara gets the closest yet to a goal for either side by nodding the ball wide of Hedman's reach. There was no evidence of anything beyond a nodding acquaintance between the two neighbours. It only takes a nodding acquaintance with this man to realise that that is not his nature. Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. We can rely on these crowds to be reasonably well behaved and to have at least a nodding acquaintance with the laws of the game. Show More Sentences After the first few nights he was on nodding terms with late night police patrols and staff at the 24-hour Tesco store. Find yourself nodding off at your desk by mid-afternoon, then failing asleep during your favorite TV show in the evening? Eric was up an about this morning when we got up this morning before nodding off again and has been asleep for the last few hours. He doesn't say a word, merely nodding in acknowledgement of Stephen's greeting. Camped in their son's room, I spent the night reading novels written for prepubescent boys, nodding off only after sunrise. Oasis also stakes out very different sonic terrain, nodding to electronic pop, dub reggae, and sixties psychedelia. The conference will be chock full with academic jargon and sagely nodding eggheads, but it is all free. Tara, not wanting to let one of her hands go from her ears, started nodding emphatically to the door. I join the end of the queue, nodding at a former stranger who's almost become a friend over recent months. The supporters also stand in nodding rows at subway entrances, bowing and squawking their inane messages. Marcus reciprocated the farewell gesture by slightly nodding his head and slowly blinking his large, intelligent eyes. Hearing her earrings jingling, I easily pictured her nodding like a lapdog. This mainly seemed to involve me talking too much with the actors nodding benignly. A quick scan of the room sees members nodding among themselves and grinning. Not everybody sees it that way, she said, nodding in the direction of Upstairs, but she doesn't give a stuff. After a while, I stop listening altogether, and go into nodding and smiling autopilot mode. Will laughed quietly and I looked up to see him nodding, looking at me softly with a smile. He pointedly shot a questioning glance at Lino, nodding his head towards Mel and Jessica. And I could almost see Katrina nodding sadly, her long, black hair rippling with her movement like a black mantilla. Then, as naively as if he were a bagman selling rubbish to a fool, Chullunder unfolded his proposal to the gravely nodding woman. Show More Sentences Soon I'll be allowed to dislike art without old bastards nodding wisely. He offered her a reassuring smile before nodding toward her hand. Mack swallowed the alcohol with a satisfied gulp before nodding. Slender wheatgrass, nodding brome, fringed brome, oat grass, red fescue, June grass, and mountain muhly are the most abundant species in dry areas. It has a faint odour of the 50s, of old dears knitting and nodding. Evan shook his head and straightened up, nodding toward the ramp. Beck just nodded his head knowingly, before nodding toward Jesse, whose blonde bangs covered any expression his eyes were holding as they skimmed across the paper. About half the crowd were silver-haired, sitting politely in rows, nodding at the testimonials being offered from the podium covering the vast breadth of Rankin's career. They are all nodding away there, but the trump card is coming up. There was a certain camaraderie, a nodding acquaintance with the other regulars, such as Big Nose's mob, several of whom had ordinary sized conks. Again Johnson was the provider with a fine centre, which was knocked back across goal and this time Wright wasn't to be denied, nodding the ball over the line. She felt herself nodding off to sleep as the minutes dragged slowly by. Her eyes held him steady and he breathed deeply before nodding in assent. Now, I would have thought that anyone who has had even a nodding acquaintance with Econ 101 would have figured that as the most natural outcome of market integration. Parody clicks only when the viewer identifies with the subject, and London as of now is only starting to make more than a nodding acquaintance with Indian culture. It's a production designed with short attention spans in mind, although it helps if you have at least a nodding acquaintance with the plays themselves. Though a relatively recent convert to card playing, Vincent has mastered all the tokens required, winking, nodding, tongue twists and body gyrations. Handing some money over, and nodding politely, she headed for the exit. I stared at him warily before nodding and scooting back towards him. As Osborne spoke, Roubini sat and listened, intermittently nodding his head and crossing and uncrossing his arms across his chest. Show More Sentences He sat in front, nodding encouragement and urging the boy on. Jesse bounced in his booster seat in back, nodding his little blond head. Each stem carries up to 10 nodding sulphur coloured flared bell shaped flowers, growing from a base of deep green foliage that has attractive mottled markings. Gone was Gingrich the attack dog, replaced instead by Gingrich the enthusiastic, vigorously nodding wing man. He put his nose closer and smelt it, nodding at the pleasant fragrance. Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus. He laughed at his own description, nodding assent, and laughing also. The vibrant costumes and scenery gave bright splashes of cartoonish colour to the scenes and the props, such as hobby horses with nodding heads, were superb. The powdered wigs and monocles glimmered as I made a smile upon my face, nodding as the finest wealth of the continent graciously accepted what the cart had to offer. Keeping the same not-smile smile on your face, nodding quickly and answering with one word. Whether a suitable retort from a Scottish nationalist would be the nodding of his head, or whether he would be quicker on the draw with two fingers might be a moot point. They'll spout a lot of emollient guff and sensible criticism of the government, which you can even find yourself nodding along to when they're on Question Time. She caught his gaze and held it evenly, nodding toward the gate. I tag along, nodding thoughtfully when I think a nod is called for. Through Saturday evening and Sunday, I was on nodding terms with several groups of pathologists who had theories that produced a wide range of diagnoses. When he closed his eyes to pray for his comrades and his cybercongregation, he felt himself nodding and his brain longing for sleep. The site in Horse Hill is about 55sq miles and we can extract the oil there largely by using those nodding donkey pumps. There isn't any doubt but that he had a nodding acquaintance with every pretty girl in town. None of the quarrymen were intimate friends of mine. I had a nodding acquaintance with them. Stephen Salter's 1974 invention became known as Salter's duck or nodding duck, although it was officially referred to as the Edinburgh Duck. Show More Sentences Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness. The nodding heads are scented with recurved and twisted tepals which range from blue-mauve to deep purple with white to yellow stamens. It's the best,'' said movie producer Paula Lane, nodding to a Classics bassline. Beside her laptop with its Lincoln mouse pad, she sometimes stations an Honest Abe bobblehead, seemingly nodding approval. Over by the bed his wife and sister are nodding their heads. The bobbleheads are yes-men, quietly nodding in assent to the questions they raise, while raising even more. Fritillaria meleagris is a bulbous perennial which produces a single, relatively large, nodding bell-flower on an erect stem some 20cm tall. Somewhere, a no-longer-in-the-league Tebow is ruefully nodding. Fully hardy and into flower around mid April, the nodding, long, 3 in petals are snow white with yellow-tipped white staminodes. By the time our waitress comes by to take our order, I am nodding my head in earnest to Badlands' personal recipe for gurgitory success. There he sat, high above his neighbours, smiling, and nodding his great head enjoyingly, from time to time. And fergawdsakes, when your instructor tells you something, acknowledge by nodding or indicate you didn't understand by appropriate expressions. Lily of the Nile is the most popular local herbaceous perennial, whose nodding inflorescences include dozens of mauve blue florets per flower stalk. Simultaneous recording of 2 episodes by EEG, videography, electromyography, and electrocardiography documented that the nodding episodes are manifestations of atonic seizures. Musk thistles, also called nodding thistle, are a common thistle plant. The leaves of this wildflower are pinnately compound and do look somewhat like a ladder It has clusters of nodding, pale blue bell-shaped flowers. Nodding the redhead turned sharply on his heel and started striding off in the direction indicated by the brunette. Nodding firmly, Junko casually tossed the dress back into the box and followed her uncle into the kitchen. Nodding again, Bishop takes a swallow of cold San Pellegrino before continuing. Nodding in affirmation, Ex led her away from the pack and into the group of bodies writhing on the dance floor. Show More Sentences Nodding furiously, he furiously began to start serving the meaty soup to the peasants. Nodding Star of Bethlehem is equally lovely when used for naturalizing. Why do you go Nodding and Waggling so like a Fool, as if you were Hipshot? says the Goose to her Gosselin. Nodding his head as he watches the scene unfold, he flashes a thumbs-up. Nodding tips, gently drooping branchlets, and fine, soft, dark green needles make them among the most graceful of all conifers. An American neurotoxicologist investigating the disease for the WHO thinks Nodding Syndrome could be connected to river blindness, a disease transmitted by the black fly. Examples from Classical Literature Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with genius it has not even a nodding acquaintance. In the soft south wind the fronded palms across the river were bowing and nodding gracefully. Philip d'Avranche sauntered slowly through the vier Marchi, nodding right and left to people who greeted him. And all the while that alchemic progenitor of mine kept up his mysterious winking and nodding. There sat the punka wala nodding, fast asleep, but keeping his arms moving all the time. I have no particular desire to be struck by a shell or a bullet, and up to now I have had only a nodding acquaintance with either. I had a nodding acquaintance with His Grace, whom I had once attended for scarlatina when he was a midshipman. Perhaps it may be more literally correct to say that I had formed a nodding acquaintance with the most of them. Other toys were put under the tree, and one of these was the nodding donkey. The creature on the bookstack was nodding and signing to Fiona, but she was too engrossed with a single thought to notice him. Scarcely would Madariaga open his lips before the German's head began nodding in agreement, anticipating his words. Ross fell asleep with an unfinished piece of corn-pone in his hand, and Anton's head was nodding. But Joe was happier than he had been in some time, for he had his nodding donkey to play with. I read the letter, raced my eyes over the uncut pages of the sadhana, and then again fell to nodding and humming through my poem. It happened that this train was running light and now the sleepers were practically deserted but for the nodding porters. There were days when Joe never took the nodding donkey off the shelf at all. In her simplicity she did not know what it was till a hint from a nodding acquaintance enlightened her. I knew it was either that or a nodding acquaintance, and I had made up my mind that it should be something quite different. The General paused for the effect, solemnly nodding his head at his astounded auditors in affirmance. Vall opened a slide under the screen and saw that the photoprint film was in place, then closed it again, nodding. Show More Sentences Sporangia globose or ovoid to ellipsoid or oblong, erect or sometimes inclined or even nodding. Over the runners tall nodding onion-heads showed, and behind them again bushes heavy with white currant. She smiled at him faintly, nodding her head as though to keep pace with her thoughts. Cleve gathered up his reins, and nodding to Mr. Frank Belmar, drove at a finable rate up the avenue and through the park. And the little ways of all one's scrabbling and burrowing and chuckling and nodding and winking house-mates! She made a moue that I ought to have found fascinating, nodding emphatically. She looked at leucon nodding reflectively on his bench, then back to Dan, meeting his gaze. He stretches out his mailed arms to astyanax, but the child is frightened by his nodding plumes. Lil looked up from her mediated state and glared at me as I pored over the hardcopy, nodding enthusiastically. He knew her, that is, he 29 had a nodding acquaintance with her. Soame Rivers slipped away in the crowd, after nodding to Ericson. It was gone, but Beth had remembered the little household ceremony, and there she was, nodding away at them like a rosyfaced mandarin. The order was obeyed promptly, though not servilely, the members of the crowd nodding familiarly to the members of the procession as it passed. The formal beds are filled in with scented pinks, heartsease pansies, nodding Allium cernuum and fragrant stocks in terracotta pots. They also nominate students for turns in the exchanges by using vocatives, the affirmative and gestures such as pointing and nodding. Ross knitted stolidly on, only nodding permission when Clara's young man, mate on one of the Shire Line sailing ships, came to walk out with her. Mr Wegg does not know, but he makes as if he did, by responsively nodding his head. Pickwick, and nodding to Sam, jerked it down his capacious throat as if it had been a small thimbleful. Burns with his moribund head nodding on the stalk of his lean neck was a sight for any one to exclaim at. Europa all the while looked down upon her brothers, nodding and laughing, but yet with a sort of stateliness in her rosy little face. Show More Sentences And, indeed, to a landsman the nodding schooners around seemed run from the same mould. The sound of monotonous axe blows rang through the forest, and the insects, nodding upon their perches, crooned like old women. Briefly, I sketched the Chief's report, fetter nodding every few words. And he sat, his lean shanks crossed, nodding at the steam escaping from the cooking-pot with a gaze senile and worried. At last I shall have a chance to see the nodding donkey again. Of course the nodding donkey did not know what it meant to be lame. Joe sat down to a table and placed the nodding donkey in front of him. The burst pipe had caused a flood, and the nodding donkey was right in it! After this Joe's nodding donkey had many adventures in his new home. I guess the nodding donkey was too close to the edge of the shelf. The nodding heads of Allium bulgaricum, otherwise known as summer bells, chime perfectly with hostas and other broad-leaved plants in the border. The same rose-brier is nodding its untrimmed boughs by the door. Huge carts filled with nodding lilies rumbled slowly down the polished empty street. Traddles is a good fellow,' returned my host nodding his head with an air of toleration. That is Kevin Egan's movement I made, nodding for his nap, sabbath sleep. Already, though there was sunlight in the haze, tattered old men and women were nodding off to sleep upon the seats. This latest study found that women tended to have more trouble nodding off and often woke up several times during the night. He did not say this, but she understood it, and laughed, nodding good-by to him. Lockwood, nodding his acknowledgments, lifted the glass to his lips. There are no cutaways to a network star nodding approvingly as Kim talks or crinkling his face in shock at Steve's past. Show More Sentences After that, he fell to gardening, and I saw him from my gothic window pretending to employ the Aged, and nodding at him in a most devoted manner. The old night watchman had a way of slipping up on one nodding. Marie had a nodding acquaintance with this neighbour of hers and no more. It was preluded by a good deal of whispering and nodding of heads. Came a general nodding and agreement of soft, blurry voices. The populace was an ever flocking and drifting swarm of rags, and splendors, of nodding plumes and shining armor. And my burro sleeps beneath the wall, in the shadow of nodding roses. Seeing them approaching, he rose from his chair, and nodding amicably to the general, signed to him not to interrupt the recitation. Here the half-pay officer, who was growing very muzzy and sleepy, and nodding over his liquor, with half-extinguished eye, suddenly gleamed up like an expiring rush-light. Cutter avouched, nodding her horse-like head and rolling her eyes. So quiet and reposeful within, for everyone slept, spent with watching, and a Sabbath stillness reigned through the house, while nodding Hannah mounted guard at the door. You will know the friend of your family better, Tootleums,' says Mr Veneering, nodding emotionally at that new article, 'when you begin to take notice. Pumblechook, sighing and nodding his head several times, as if he might have expected that, and as if abstinence from watercresses were consistent with my downfall. Snake's Head Fritillary THIS dainty-looking bulb is a must for flower lovers, with its delicate purple-and-white nodding bells with intricate checkerboard patterns. In Lisvane is a tapestry of a lane, its banks starred with stitchwort, studded with the gold of celandine, pink herb Robert and nodding purple violets. Nodding confirmation to the brilliant rejoinder, Janet fell again to work. Nodding off for just a second or two at the wheel can kill as easily as drinking a bottle of scotch before driving home. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of nodding? Words that rhyme with nodding What is the plural of nodding? What is the adverb for nodding? What is the noun for nodding? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words nodder nodded their heads nodded nodally nodal Nod noddle noddy node NODE nodes no difference 7-letter Words Starting With n no nod nodd noddi noddin