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Antonyms for wavingwav·ing

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  1. wave, waving, wafturenoun

    the act of signaling by a movement of the hand

    Synonyms:
    wave, wafture, undulation, moving ridge

How to use waving in a sentence?

  1. The Forest Service:

    Act aggressively and intimidate the bear by yelling and waving your arms, playing dead is not appropriate.

  2. Karl Rove:

    I looked over to the left and I could see the cardinal of New York standing about 30 feet away with all the religious leadership in New York, they were waving little American flags and chanting and there were openly weeping.

  3. Dia Dipasupil/WireImage:

    I prepared and I knew that I could be Miss USA, that’s what I wanted, and that was my goal. But actually winning is a whole other experience. You know, when they called my name, my mind kind of went blank. All I could think was, ‘They’re about to put the crown on my head. Where’s my mom?’ And I was looking for her in the audience. She was there with a picture of my face on a stick, waving it around… But it was an amazing moment, and very surreal.

  4. Chris Summers:

    It was a massive, massive story, the whole of Fleet Street came down, Sky and BBC TV trucks. Within a couple of weeks there were TV crews from Japan and America, all over the place. Fleet Street was waving their checkbooks around... and getting a lot of people to talk. We were trying to compete as the local paper.

  5. Glenn Asakawa:

    It looks like it's waving, the body language says it all.

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