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Nodding in sentence

82 examples of Nodding in a sentence

The acting is weak, the directing is slow paced and not involving and I found myself nodding off occasionally.
It was depressing to see her standing there nodding while holding the suitcases.
By the time he had got to Chan Chan I was nodding off and my husband was fast asleep.
Cooper stages innumerable scenes around the piano with McArdle in song--always surrounded by adults nodding to each other, pretending to find her adorable--but never gets at what was so unique about Judy Garland.
With President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair nodding their approval, Collins and Venter agreed that racial classifications make no sense at the molecular level; we humans are 99.9% alike in our DNA.
They participated in photo opportunities wearing painted-on smiles, nodding and shaking one another’s hands.
With Europe’s crisis-stricken governments increasingly turning to unelected technocrats, one can almost see citizens nodding in agreement.
Johnson, a prime minister who is barely on nodding terms with the truth, ineptly tried to claim that the five-week period was linked to Parliament’s usual September recess, when the main political parties hold their conferences.
His father called out to him not to return late; and he left, nodding his head with his pipe between his teeth, without replying.
And when he turned his back after nodding affirmatively, both men decided to enter the Yards.
Others, without speaking, showed their approval by nodding their heads.
He listened, nodding his head, but he did not hear; his thoughts were in the room upstairs.
Now I'll find out everything, thought K., nodding vigorously as if he could thereby encourage the businessman to say everything worth knowing.
It was almost impossible to understand what this behaviour meant, K. waited a while longer but the man in the cassock did not stop gesturing with his hand and even augmented it by nodding his head.
Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all.
"Zounds!" muttered the sleepy cornet in the rear, as he was nodding on his horse, "there is life in the captain, notwithstanding his tumble."
"Now, Jack," said Sitgreaves, nodding on his seat, "remember the air I taught you, and - stop, I have a copy of the words in my pocket."
The balmy summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting--for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap.
A whole hour drifted by, the master sat nodding in his throne, the air was drowsy with the hum of study.
"I ken him weel," said our student, nodding after him.
My father shook his head, for he had a liking for Jim; but we all walked up to the house again, nodding and blinking, and hardly able to keep our eyes open now that we knew that all was safe, but with a thrill of joy at our hearts such as I have only matched once or twice in my lifetime.
"Oh!" said he, and stood nodding his head and looking at me, though I knew very well that he could neither see me, nor the steading, nor anything else.
So he stood for a minute or more, with his hands clenched and his head still nodding.
Couldn't you get rid of him, send him on a journey somewhere, a long way off?""Ah! yes, send him on a journey!" resumed the young woman, nodding her head.
Here Dodson drew himself up, with an air of offended virtue, and looked at Fogg, who thrust his hands farther in his pockets, and nodding his head sagely, said, in a tone of the fullest concurrence,'Most certainly.'
The brandy was brought; and Mr. Weller, after pulling his hair to Mr. Pickwick, and nodding to Sam, jerked it down his capacious throat as if it had been a small thimbleful.
'Nothing, ma'am, upon my honour,' said Mr. Pickwick, nodding his head so energetically, that the tassel of his nightcap danced again.
The son walked up to the pot of ale, and nodding significantly to his parent, took a long draught by way of reply.
'How de do, sir?' said Mr. Jackson, nodding to Mr. Pickwick.
It was a scene of gaiety, glitter, and show; of richly-dressed people, handsome mirrors, chalked floors, girandoles and wax-candles; and in all parts of the scene, gliding from spot to spot in silent softness, bowing obsequiously to this party, nodding familiarly to that, and smiling complacently on all, was the sprucely-attired person of Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, the Master of the Ceremonies.
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