beckon
Example Sentences
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Beckon the waiter imperiously and call for a perfumed roll of Bounty?
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2014
With Martz in the House, Playoffs Beckon In Alaska, where I recently visited, it’s hard not to notice the bears.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2010
"Beckon to John Alden to send him," retorted Mary promptly.
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)
Under them hear they the clang of harpstrings, and angels from gold clouds Beckon to them like brothers, and fan with their pinions of purple.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
We call them in bird songs, Beckon them in nodding branches.
From The Cycle of Spring by Tagore, Rabindranath
Vocabulary lists containing beckon
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "B"
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