WAVE in a Sentence

Learn WAVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

315 example sentences for WAVE, such as:

1. A large wave upset the boat.
2. The pool has a wave machine.
3. She has a natural wave in her hair.
4. A wave of indignation swept over Lily.
5. The new tax sparked a wave of public protest.

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 Meanings and Examples of WAVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wave
 n.  rough top of the water when the sea is not calm
 v.  move one's hand to and in greeting
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A wave of shyness pulled him back into the dark angle of the wall, and he stood there in silence instead of making his presence known to her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The wave of warmth that went through him was like the prolongation of his vision.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  She drew closer under the bearskin, so that, looking sideways around his coat-sleeve, he could just catch the tip of her nose and a blown brown wave of hair.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  Aunt Pitty knew nothing about men, either with their backs up or otherwise, and she could only wave her fat little hands helplessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  Mrs. Meade managed to smile and wave until he had passed and then she leaned her head on the back of Scarlett's shoulder for a moment as though her strength had suddenly left her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  With the loss of the supposedly unconquerable position, a fresh wave of terror swept the town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Now that the deed was done, she realized this with a wave of homesickness hard to dispel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  The wave of rebuilding was giving her the opportunity she wanted and she knew she could make money if only she could stay out of jail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  On the crest of this wave of vulgarity, Scarlett rode triumphantly, newly a bride, dashingly pretty in her fine clothes, with Rhett's money solidly behind her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
10  That was years ago, when she first came out, and had been smitten with a romantic passion for a young gentleman named Herbert Melson, who had blue eyes and a little wave in his hair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
11  The rise of her blood as their eyes met was succeeded by a contrary motion, a wave of resistance and withdrawal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  A wave of indignation swept over Lily.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
13  From beneath its luggage-laden top, she caught the wave of a signalling hand; and the next moment Mrs. Fisher, springing to the street, had folded her in a demonstrative embrace.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
14  A wave of colour suffused her, and the words died on her lips.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
15  She tried to reply, to assure the speaker that she had not forgotten; but her voice failed in the effort, and she felt herself sinking under a great wave of physical weakness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
Example Sentence: (105 in 8 pages)
16  A large wave upset the boat.
17  The pool has a wave machine.
18  Once the last boxes were packed away, he was overtaken by a wave of tiredness.
19  He called for a halt to the recent wave of emigration.
20  A rule says that the height of a wave will usually be no more than one-tenth of the wind's speed.
21  The band are riding on the crest of a wave with the worldwide success of their number one selling single.
22  The new tax sparked a wave of public protest.
23  We need more young scientists to fill the gap left by a wave of retirements expected over the next decade.
24  I did the same thing except with a Bunker Buster, but the shock wave made me stumble and made me look like a clumsy loser.
25  The new eleven hour curfew has been brought in by an administration seemingly desperate to stop what has now become a wave of demonstrations against King Gyanendra, his son Crown Prince Paras and increasingly, in favor of a republic.
26  The tidal wave would obliterate several island villages,.
27  Short term accurate wind and wave forecasts can be used for optimal ship routing.
28  Given the current wave of Japan-bashing, it does not take prescience for me to foresee problems in our future trade relations with Japan.
29  She has a natural wave in her hair.
30  The internet has lost its democratic lustre; lauded as a force for change during the Arab Spring in 2010, its reputation has been sunk by a wave of populism in the West.