All 12 Uses of
beckon
in
Obasan
- As Obasan returns toward us, the old woman in the seat diagonal to ours beckons to me, nodding her head, urging me to come to her, her hand gesturing downward in a digging waving motion.
Chpt 15beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- One afternoon, when Obasan has donned her white brimmed hat and gone through the woods to Slocan for groceries, Nomura-obasan calls me urgently, her hand beckoning.
Chpt 17beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture)
- She beckons to me and leans heavily as I help her outside and onto the path to the outhouse that stands between two trees beside the compost pile.
Chpt 17beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- He beckons to Stephen.
Chpt 18
- As I draw nearer, I see that the monkey-faced woman is beckoning to them.
Chpt 23beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- The two women step out, beckoning to the girls to follow them.
Chpt 23 *beckoning = calling (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- She beckons with her hand in the waving slapping motion and the quick nodding of the head that means "Come at once."
Chpt 23beckons = calls (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- Without turning his head to look at me, he beckons, and I see the same hand, the long thin fingers that I have watched moving with confidence over the keyboard.
Chpt 24beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- Father places the broken record down beside him and beckons Stephen over.
Chpt 25
- Throughout the meal, one keeps beckoning to me with his crooked finger and he winks and holds out a five-dollar bill.
Chpt 28beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- The water fills with flailing arms that beckon like seaweed on the prow.†
Chpt 38
- Grief wails like a scarecrow in the wild night, beckoning the wind to clothe his gaunt shell.
Chpt 39beckoning = signaling (by using a hand gesture or a nod)
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