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  • verb Present participle of beckon.
  • adjective That beckons
  • noun Such a wave or similar action

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Examples

  • Now, with the Big 12 conference finale within touching distance and one last shot at a national title beckoning, she has been asked to lead the Longhorns 'attack in one last attempt to kick start a listless offense.

    The Daily Texan RSS 2008

  • I think if you had never come to Door you would have found it in a Cathedral in the city when all the votive lights were lit, or in the glow of a woman’s cigarette beckoning from a dark door, or from the wild luridly colored lights on a wet city pavement.

    July « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • Grinding into a guys crotch while clinging to him will do that:) The routine starts with a beckoning from the girl and a game of playing hard to get.

    Collegiate Ballroom Workshop HayleyM 2008

  • Grinding into a guys crotch while clinging to him will do that:) The routine starts with a beckoning from the girl and a game of playing hard to get.

    Archive 2008-10-01 HayleyM 2008

  • I think if you had never come to Door you would have found it in a Cathedral in the city when all the votive lights were lit, or in the glow of a woman’s cigarette beckoning from a dark door, or from the wild luridly colored lights on a wet city pavement.

    norbert blei | a meditation on ‘getting it out there’ « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • Just hundreds of colorful beer labels beckoning me to pick them up and caress them.

    Archive 2007-09-01 e d b m 2007

  • Just hundreds of colorful beer labels beckoning me to pick them up and caress them.

    San Francisco - All Work, No Play... But Definitely Good Eating e d b m 2007

  • "Come in, Prissy!" she bawled, illustrating her summons with what might be called a beckoning in broad capitals, done with the whole arm from finger-tips to shoulder, twice or thrice.

    A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. 1865

  • While entering the park in the early morning mist, we heard their eery calls beckoning us forwards.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • While entering the park in the early morning mist, we heard their eery calls beckoning us forwards.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

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