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
It has been known for decades that honeybees do so-called waggle dances, in which their movements and orientation on the honeycomb signal the direction and distance to food outside the hive.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
Insects are known to be capable of social learning in the wild: the best-known example is the so-called waggle dance used by honeybees to communicate the location and quality of flowers.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 7, 2023
“I beg pardon. Henceforth, I shall not even waggle my ears save by your lordship’s lordly leave.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
She waggles her pointer finger in the direction of the stuffed frog.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Millions of people watched the awards shows where Williams waggled his hips at Tom Jones, or challenged Oasis’ Liam Gallagher to a fist fight — moments that have been absorbed into pop culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
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
The imagery in “Minions & Monsters” can be ingenious, like the galumphing tentacles on an oversize squid or the close-up shot that goes inside a director’s megaphone to see his tongue waggling at the screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
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
“Don’t be so sure!” said Lockhart, waggling a finger annoyingly at Seamus.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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