Nodding

//ˈnɑdɪŋ//

"Nodding" in a Sentence (11 examples)

I have a nodding acquaintance with Mr Smith.

You kept nodding off during that lecture, didn't you?

You were nodding off at times during my lecture.

You are nodding over your work.

I didn't get much sleep last night so I was nodding off all day at work.

I have a nodding acquaintance with her.

I have a nodding acquaintance with him.

People communicate approval by nodding, by clapping their hands, by smiling or laughing.

Please answer either by nodding or shaking your head.

For example in Bulgaria, shaking one's head means yes while nodding one's head means no.

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The Commons, on the other hand, upon permission being granted to appear at their Lordships' bar, come in with as many and as sapient noddings of the head, as a wooden mandarin performs in a tea-dealer's window[…]

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