Sample Sentences for
waive
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waive as in:  waive the right

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    She waived her rights and answered the policeman's questions.
    waived = did not enforce
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    Dr. Johnson said, "Your mother has decided to waive your right to appeal."  (source)
    waive = give up
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    He says his client will agree to waive everything and get it over with.  (source)
    waive = not enforce
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    I played football with the boys, who would waive their guys-only rule and let me join a team if they were short a player.  (source)
    waive = not enforce
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    And the University of Michigan waived the fees for in-state students who couldn't afford to pay.  (source)
    waived = not enforce (not collect)
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    He had a rare congenital heart defect, which a team of surgeons fixed, waiving their fees.  (source)
    waiving = not enforcing (not collecting)
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    So skilfully and so closely has he drawn the bonds of the law about the tenant, that the black man has often simply to choose between pauperism and crime; he "waives" all homestead exemptions in his contract; he cannot touch his own mortgaged crop, which the laws put almost in the full control of the land-owner and of the merchant.†  (source)
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    And now, there is the small matter of my consultation fee—heh-heh. I'm thinking I'll waive it in exchange for a small favor.  (source)
    waive = not enforce (not collect)
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    The treaty waived the right of former POWs and their families to seek reparations from Japan and Japanese companies that had profited from their enslavement.  (source)
    waived = gave up
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    "Not another word," he said, waiving the rebuff off.†  (source)
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    But he waives his majesty with infinite grace; walks with a feather-like step; and makes every wrinkle in his war worn visage brim over with holiday joyousness.†  (source)
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    Do you waive the formal reading of the indictment?  (source)
    waive = not enforce the right of
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    In as short a time as Mr. Collins's long speeches would allow, everything was settled between them to the satisfaction of both; and as they entered the house he earnestly entreated her to name the day that was to make him the happiest of men; and though such a solicitation must be waived for the present, the lady felt no inclination to trifle with his happiness.  (source)
    waived = not insisted on
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waive as in:  waive the discussion

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Let's waive discussion on the topic until she can join us.
waive = not engage in
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    She waived the decision of which to choose by buying both.
    waived = did not engage in
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    "It may be so," said the young clergyman, indifferently, as waiving a discussion that he considered irrelevant or unseasonable.  (source)
    waiving = not engaging in
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    "Yes," said Will, in a tone that seemed to waive the subject as uninteresting.  (source)
    waive = ignore (not engage in)
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    "Gulden, suppose we waive the question till we're on the grounds?" he suggested.  (source)
    waive = do not engage in
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    He could not choose between roast beef and chicken, and so he waived the question by taking both; and what with the biscuits and butter, apple-sauce and blackberry jam, cherry pie and milk like cream, there was danger of making himself ill.  (source)
    waived = did not engage in
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    The scout nodded his head in assent, though he seemed anxious to waive the further discussion of a subject that appeared painful.  (source)
    waive = refrain from engaging in
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    Nothing escaped Lydgate in Rosamond's graceful behavior: how delicately she waived the notice which the old man's want of taste had thrust upon her by a quiet gravity, not showing her dimples on the wrong occasion, but showing them afterwards in speaking to Mary, to whom she addressed herself with so much good-natured interest, that Lydgate, after quickly examining Mary more fully than he had done before, saw an adorable kindness in Rosamond's eyes.  (source)
    waived = ignored (not engaged in)
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    --the Legislature would not wholly waive the subject of the following winter.  (source)
    waive = refrain from engaging in
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    But going out of the porte cochere he met Mr. Casaubon, and that gentleman, expressing the best wishes for his cousin, politely waived the pleasure of any further leave-taking on the morrow, which would be sufficiently crowded with the preparations for departure.  (source)
    waived = did not engage in
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    "Thank you," said Caleb, making a slight gesture with his right hand to waive the invitation.  (source)
    waive = decline (not engage in)
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    There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.  (source)
    waived = not engaged in
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    With this feeling uppermost, he continued to waive the question of the chaplaincy, and to persuade himself that it was not only no proper business of his, but likely enough never to vex him with a demand for his vote.  (source)
    waive = not engage in
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    She folded herself in the large chair, and leaned her head against it in fatigued quiescence, while Tantripp went away wondering at this strange contrariness in her young mistress—that just the morning when she had more of a widow's face than ever, she should have asked for her lighter mourning which she had waived before.  (source)
    waived = not engaged in
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waive as in:  waive the player

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    After being waived, the running back was picked up by another team within 48 hours.
    waived = released from the team roster
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    We were facing the 52-player limit, so wanted to move him to our practice squad for a year. But under league rules that meant we had to waive him and unfortunately for us, another team signed him.†
    waive = release from the team roster
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