greeting

Example Sentences

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More than 60,000 greeting cards from all over the world have been delivered to a girl with cancer who wanted to break a world record on her eighth birthday.

From BBC

Slowly it moved its flippers like the oars of a rowboat, turning toward Renata and bobbing its head as if in greeting as it went past.

From Literature

In an unusual break from the usual choreography of visits by foreign leaders, the White House didn’t open the Oval Office sit-down to the press and skipped the customary greetings and joint remarks.

From The Wall Street Journal

Known for his signature greeting, “Hi everybody, and a very pleasant good evening to you,” Vin Scully was the voice of the Dodgers — and of baseball.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s a chorus of greetings from us kids: “Hi, Auntie. Hi, Uncle.”

From Literature