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"Wag" in a Sentence (29 examples)
Dogs wag their tails and cats swish theirs.
Tom used to wag school a lot when he was a kid.
All but two members of the Conservative Party lost their seats in a federal election. One wag joked that their entire caucus could now meet in a telephone booth.
I'm not going to wag my tail when they arrive.
But there was no moving Prendergast and those who were with him. Our only chance of safety lay in making a clean job of it, said he, and he would not leave a tongue with power to wag in a witness-box.
If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog.
Dogs wag their tails when they're happy.
My French Bulldog would wag her tail to greet you, but it's too short to wag.
The Italian research team behind the study says dogs recognize, and respond accordingly, whether other canines wag their tails to the right or to the left.
What makes dogs wag their tails?
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No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.
Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
"My misfortunes all began in wagging, Sir; but what could I do, exceptin' wag?" "Excepting what?" said Mr. Carker. "Wag, Sir. Wagging from school." "Do you mean pretending to go there, and not going?" said Mr. Carker. "Yes, Sir, that's wagging, Sir."
They had "wagged it" from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms.
[…] she wagged English and Science just to go in his car […]
"Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."
She's a real gossip: her tongue is always wagging.
I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag.
The tail wagged.
The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.
Was not my Lord The veryer Wag o'th' two?
But being a bit of a wag, and relishing a good joke amazingly, he concluded to have a little fun, and at the same time learn his friend a lesson concerning his negligent custom.
“A nice, juicy steak,” he is said to have called for, “French fries, apple pie and a cup of coffee.” It is probable that he really said “a coff of cuppee,” however, as he was a wag of the first water and loved a joke as well as the next king.
By Wednesday it had already won art-world notoriety, and on Saturday it achieved a public visibility that any artist would envy, after a self-promoting wag tore the banana off the wall and gobbled it up.
Many people can't work from home - as one wag observed: "Well, I would, but the wife doesn't like me laying tarmac in the front room!"
The World Cup WAGs are a good example of this. The younger girls, nicknamed the ‘hen-night crowd’ and led by Colleen McLoughlin, dance on tables and drink until the early hours while No. 1 WAG Victoria Beckham remains aloof, dining sedately with Ashley Cole’s fiancee, Cheryl Tweedy.
In Wimbledon, the tennis WAGs and - just as excitingly - HABs (Husbands and Boyfriends) have been appearing courtside, enthusiastically cheering on their beloved other halves with a degree of style.
They looked her up online and soon began following Ms. Riddle on social media, where she shares her life as a tennis WAG — an acronym for “wives and girlfriends,” popularized in Britain in the mid-2000s to describe, disparagingly, a group of preening, partying women attached to soccer players.
WAGs have taken on a second life in the American sports world, linked to basketball, football and, more recently, Formula 1 and tennis.
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