All 3 Uses of
beckon
in
Funny in Farsi
- Moments before I got to see the tunnel with the light at the end and the angels beckoning me to join them, she lifted me out of the water.
p. 72..1beckoning = calling
- "Let's get there and see which island beckons us" was our motto.
p. 167..7 *beckons = calls (figuratively by being desirable)
- Once in Nassau, we discovered that there was no island beckoning us. We had arrived smack dab in the middle of spring break, and the Bahamas were full, full of people far more intelligent than we who had already made reservations on every boat or plane leaving Nassau for the other islands. We were stuck.
p. 167..9beckoning = calling (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