Read full poem →And each will find by hedge or pond
Her waving silver-tufted wand.
Dictionary Entry
Moving your hand or arm back and forth, typically as a greeting, signal, or to get attention.
In a Sentence
“He was waving enthusiastically from the window to his family below.”
Origin
From Old English 'wagian' meaning 'to move unsteadily'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “waving”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To steal from rainbows, ere they drop in showers,
A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs,
Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs;
Read full poem →Swings slow across the sky,
Athwart a waving pine tree,
And soon
Read full poem →It hangs, a piece of wood with colours dim.
Once, long ago, it was a waving tree
And knew the sun and shadow through the leaves
Read full poem →And up the road journeyed knights-at-arms,
With waving plumes and glittering spears.
Read full poem →But, waving these aside like flies,
Young Fairfax through the wall does rise
Read full poem →In the shadiest places,
Find no waving meadow-grass
Pied with broad-eyed daisies;
Read full poem →He swept the spring that watered my heart's drouth.
Then the dark ripples spread to waving hair,
And as I stooped, her own lips rising there
Read full poem →Waiting for him to appear, pushing ahead,
First his waving antennæ, like straws of hay,
And soon his body, colored like soap-stone,
Read full poem →Upon an hill a bright flame I did see,
Waving aloft with triple point to skie,
Which, like incense of precious cedar tree,