greeting
Example Sentences
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When I nodded to her in greeting, she compressed her lips and looked at Ba.
From Literature
“Number—” I asked the next caller, but a young-sounding voice interrupted before I could even finish the greeting.
From Literature
“A not uncommon greeting among Berlin Jews,” Mr. Buruma writes, was, “how is your emigration coming along?”
An advertisement for the train service, in Korean and Mandarin, touted a new chapter in bilateral relations with the greeting: “Welcome, Chinese comrades!”
They even cited, “Under his eye,” a greeting phrase used by the people of Gilead in “The Handmaid’s Tale” referring to both the authoritarian and ever-watchful eye of that novel’s leadership.
From Salon
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