All 4 Uses of
beckon
in
Girl Interrupted
- After a while he beckoned me over with one of his long arms.
*beckoned = called (to come)
- Their quavery yellow light, their long yellow-tiled walls and barrel-vaulted ceilings, their forks and twists and roads not taken, whose yellow openings beckoned like shiny open mouths.
beckoned = called (figuratively, by leading to a desired goal)
- Thursday he beckoned me over to his desk, where he sat, smoking.
beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed.
beckons = calls (figuratively by being desirable)
Definition:
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(beckon) to call -- typically to ask or tell someone to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod of the head