waggle
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Every day, new people came, some people left, but the constant was Syd, his presence, his waggle, his ability to give unexpected joy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
He added: "He had a super swing - a no-nonsense swing. One waggle and away it went."
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025
This enabled them to track the position of the antennae of the surrounding bees in fine detail during each waggle dance -- which are otherwise a blur to the naked human eye.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
It can also do something more complicated, which is the very famous waggle dance—it’s the communication pattern they use to convey the location of a nectar source to other honeybees.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2023
Biddy waggle her fingers closer, and Mama Duck hiss through the hole in her beak and struck her head out like a snake trying to bite Biddy’s fingers.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
But he says the new research reveals more about the structure of a species’ communication system, much as scientists deciphered how the waggles of honey bees tell other bees where flowers are located.
From Science Magazine ● May 7, 2024
The researchers observed that bees alter the position of their antennae, which are touched repeatedly by the dancer as it waggles by, based on the angle of their body relative to the dancer.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
“His tongue waggles, he talks fast. Smooth talker is how I’m going to explain it.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
It's a fiercely hot afternoon in Milton Keynes and I'm chasing a small orange flag as it waggles just above a line of low garden walls.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2022
He holds the tan-sandy shoe up and waggles it.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
Everyone laughed when she stuck out her foot and theatrically waggled it, as if showing off a designer stiletto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
When I met Caleb at his place, I held up my hands and waggled my fingers.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2019
“Respect the axe. Don’t swing it everywhere. Don’t just throw it around all willy-nilly,” Meehan-Berg said, as I waggled the axe about.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018
He waggled his eyebrows à la Groucho, and signed off the call.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
Then he jammed it into his belt and waggled his fingers for the treat to come.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
Anyway, a discussion about the weather sparked Mr. Biden’s memory of an old movie, unspooling in his waggling mind.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
After a few tries, he appeared to grow weary of following its rules, and just started waggling the mouse up and down rapidly to create a barrage of noise.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
Slow-motion footage of waggling goose butts set to a bouncy, whimsical orchestral soundtrack works.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2020
Garcia's serial waggling that week sent many fans over the edge, and the relationship between the Spaniard and the Bethpage gallery has been rocky ever since.
From Golf Digest ● May 10, 2019
“You keep waggling you fingers at that duck, it’s gonna bite you a good one. Don’t come running to me when you get the duck rabies.”
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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