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Wagging in sentence

24 examples of Wagging in a sentence

Instead of wagging their paddles back and forth, they wind them like a cork screw.
Her father explained to her that fish swim by quickly wagging their tails to propel themselves through the water.
Without hesitation, little Dorothy responded, "Yes, Daddy, and fish swim backwards by wagging their heads."
Fish swim backwards by wagging their heads.
In our minds, fish swim by in reverse frantically wagging their heads and we don't even notice them.
But on the other side of that predatory gaze is a female husky in a play bow, wagging her tail.
In one scene in the film her pal Ruby (Michelle Williams) and Liz walk through Harvard, and all the guys' tongues are wagging at Ricci, not the super-cute and sexy Williams.
Yeah it's hard to keep your mind off this fetching beauty (giving an radiantly picture-perfect performance), as she simply has tongues wagging.
Betty Anderson (Terry Moore) is the town "fast girl" whose romantic liaisons set the community's tongues wagging, while Constance tries to fight her attraction to high school principal Mike Rossi (Lee Phillips), again afraid of history repeating itself.
Ergo, gangsters are fascists, and, double ergo, films which portray gangsters without a wagging finger are also fascist.
An old man living on a boat together with a nubile teenage girl, is bound to set tongues wagging.
But, here, the Hungarian tail is wagging the German dog.
Indeed, Israel’s critics were already arguing that this was another case of the tail wagging the dog – that Israel and its American lobby were trying to push the US into serving Israel’s interests rather than its own.
The Tails Wagging the Kremlin Dog?MOSCOW – Imagine a crank who tries to pass himself off as a nineteenth-century Russian baron.
But it wouldn’t be easy, owing in part to the Taliban’s fragmentation, with the tail (private armies and militias) wagging the dog.
The Populist Tail Wagging the German DogWARSAW – Initially, the big losers in Germany’s federal election in September were a Frenchman and a Luxembourger: French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
This would prevent the tail of obscure financial instabilities from wagging the dog of the real economy.
Although there is a clear-cut case for shutting down coal-fired power plants, wagging fingers at coal-intensive societies simply does not work.
But somehow, as it bounded up and saw the twittering finger and thumb which de Lapp held out behind him, its fury died suddenly away, and we saw it wagging its thumb of a tail and clawing at his knee.
Well, it was just her way, and she could no more help it than a rabbit can help wagging its scut, and yet it made me heavy-hearted to think of it.
They then began to eat with very great relish and very leisurely, making the most of each morsel—very small ones of everything—they took up on the point of the knife; and then all at the same moment raised their arms and botas aloft, the mouths placed in their mouths, and all eyes fixed on heaven just as if they were taking aim at it; and in this attitude they remained ever so long, wagging their heads from side to side as if in acknowledgment of the pleasure they were enjoying while they decanted the bowels of the bottles into their own stomachs.
Old Laska, who had not yet quite digested her joy at her master's return and had run out to bark in the yard, now came back, bringing a smell of fresh air with her into the room and, wagging her tail, she approached him and putting her head under his hand whined plaintively, asking to be patted.
'Here it is!' answered Levin, pointing to Laska, who with one ear erect, wagging her fluffy, high-arched tail, stepping slowly as if to prolong the pleasure and seeming almost to smile, brought the dead bird to her master.
"I will tell you in your private ear," replied she, wagging her turban three times with portentous significancy.