Nodded in sentence

163 examples of Nodded in a sentence

Maheu nodded approval.

Alzire nodded approvingly.

Souvarine nodded his head without replying.

He nodded with a cautious look.

She nodded quickly and reclosed the window.

She nodded her head in assent; then a quarter of an hour later—"Are you going out to-night?" she asked.

Julien nodded his head, he had no longer the heart to speak.

The gentlemen laughed and nodded enthusiastically, as if that was what they had been waiting for all the time, except that K. had left his hat in his room so they all dashed, one after another, into the room to fetch it, which caused a certain amount of embarrassment.

K. nodded, and quietly cursed Kaminer who worked at his bank and who was always active doing things that had neither use nor purpose.

"I see," said K., and nodded, "those books must be law books, and that's how this court does things, not only to try people who are innocent but even to try them without letting them know what's going on."

He asked the usher whether that was the right way to go, the usher nodded, and that is the way that K. went.

K. nodded, but started to move off again when the information-giver repeated, "Would you not like to sit down here a while?""No, "said K., "I don't want to rest."

Mrs. Grubach just nodded.

They would be able to do the job the next day, K. nodded, it was too late in the evening to make them do it there and then as he had originally intended.

K. believed he understood not a word of this entire speech, he looked at his uncle for an explanation but his uncle sat on the bedside table with the candle in his hand, a medicine bottle had rolled off the table onto the floor, he nodded to everything the lawyer said, agreed to everything, and now and then looked at K. urging him to show the same compliance.

And K. had indeed, at first, been closely following what the manufacturer was saying, he too was aware of how important the deal was, but unfortunately it did not last, he soon stopped listening, nodded at each of the manufacturer's louder exclamations for a short while, but eventually he stopped doing even that and did no more than stare at the bald head bent over the papers, asking himself when the manufacturer would finally realise that everything he was saying was useless.

"It's a horrible autumn," said the manufacturer, who had come into the room unnoticed after seeing the deputy director and now stood behind K.K. nodded and looked uneasily at the manufacturer's briefcase, from which he would now probably take the papers and inform K. of the result of his negotiations with the deputy director.

K. nodded and accompanied the manufacturer on through the ante-room.

She nodded and asked in reply, "What d'you want to see him for?"

But K. wanted him to continue speaking and said, "Well, positions like that, that aren't officially acknowledged, can often have more influence than those that are.""And that's how it is with me," said the painter, and nodded with a frown.

The painter nodded as if he understood K.'s discomfort very well.

The businessman nodded.

The latter nodded and, although he had spoken quite openly with K. earlier, seemed to be confused with shame as he said, "Yes, later on you become very dependent on your lawyer."

As the lawyer finished what he was saying, K. was fully in control of himself, he had even nodded conspicuously at his last few words in order to confirm to himself the view he had already formed; that the lawyer was trying to confuse him, as he always did, by making general and irrelevant observations, and thus distract him from the main question of what he was actually doing for K.'s trial.

She smiled and nodded to K., K. looked blankly back at her."Fetch Block," said the lawyer.

But under the pulpit - K. grinned in astonishment - there really was a priest standing with his hand on the handrail ready to climb the steps and looking at K. Then he nodded very slightly, so that K. crossed himself and genuflected as he should have done earlier.

The gentlemen nodded, one of them indicated the other with the top hand now in his hand.

Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at this unexpected thrift and caution.

Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide and briefly nodded to him several times.

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