How to use "wave" in a sentence
Sentences
Then I turn and wave goodbye
It is the last time I will wave goodbye with my right hand.
Friends suddenly appear in the canyon like silent ghosts and wave me towards them
'Thanks for everything.' I wave goodbye as the helicopter rises into the air.
With those words, she gave a little laugh and wave, grabbed some dry bread from the table and disappeared out of the door.
A gentle wave splashed her face
A wave of shock hit her
Self-pity rose like a wave inside her.
A wave of frigid air washed out of the dark room, into the hallway.
Furthermore, this was not the mid-nineteenth century; these days, doctors could detect even the vaguest heartbeat, the shallowest respiration, the dimmest traces of brain-wave activity.
He was safe, close behind her, knocked off balance by the force of the shock wave, staggering forward, but unhurt.
Like a wave
At the same time, he was hit by a wave of revulsion
An image of his victim's torn throat exploded in his memory, and a shock wave of nausea overwhelmed him.
In another moment a great wave of very hot water came sweeping round the bend
In another moment a large wave of almost boiling water rushed towards me
You can understand the wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world at dawn on Monday morning
Each wave looked at different parts of the same problem
The first wave, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was mostly about women's right to vote
The second wave, which began in the 1960s, was about women's fight for freedom
The third wave, which began in the 1990s, continues the work of second-wave feminism
The fourth wave started around 2012, and it is about sexual harassment and crimes against women at work
The first wave of feminism in the West was mostly about getting the vote
The second wave of feminism arrived in the middle of the 20th century
Second-wave feminism was about more than the vote; it was about sexuality, family and work
Second-wave feminism also talked about sexual assault against women
Fourth-wave feminism uses social media to talk about the problem of harassment in the street and at work
Examples of fourth-wave feminism are: the 2017 Women's March; the 2018 Women's March; and the MeToo movement