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How to use nod in a sentence

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He thought about what he said, gave a curt nod as if to reassure himself, and ushered them into the next room.
And the motion of these characters is positively stilted and looks like marionettes on strings as they bob and nod about.
In a nod to the county's former hippy past, the company's head chef is said to have formerly worked for the rock band Grateful Dead.
Some will nod heads knowingly while other saddened souls will simply shake theirs.
The old guy was still up, sitting on his bentwood chair, and gave me a knowing nod as I passed him.
Danny accepts it with a grateful nod and drinks a long draught, trying to banish the shakes from his body.
Sometimes I pass a fellow lost soul and exchange a nod of acknowledgment, but this is a big maze and it seems to swallow people up.
Having had a bit of a mare against Forest last week Leigertwood was lucky to be given the nod ahead of Derry in midfield.
The men at the table nod to her as she gathers her winnings into her purse and stands.
When we tell them why, they nod good-naturedly and talk to the rest, and laugh gently at Katherine's weak attempts at Konkani.
So it was easier to let the old blowhard yak away and just nod occasionally.
The Haldiram saga was also well mapped, but I did nod off towards the latter half.
All present took it, rightly, as a rhetorical question and did our best to nod agreement.
Legume roots are known to exude various flavonoid and isoflavonoid molecules that induce expression of nod genes by bacteria in rhizobia.
He felt her nod beneath his cheek and he fought the rioting emotions inside him.
Carnegie would surely have given an approving nod to the latest generation of philanthropists.
There can be no greater validation for a movie, than receiving a nod of approval from the man who inspired it.
For example, the voice actors issue pre-recorded phone calls and their conversations are such that all you can do is nod or assent.
She is the sort of person who, if you called her an unregenerate hippie, might proudly nod assent.
We emptied wine bottles and talked about ourselves, taking it in turns to nod assertively at each other's observations.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A nod from the water seller told that I had reached the end of the journey.
It was with an absentminded nod that he acquiesced in the man's announcement that he might arrange about the boat for him.
After this whisper, the legionnaire drew back, his look asking for an answer by nod or shake of the head.
Then the Tartar moved on, obedient to a word and a nod from Niaz, and raised his sword again above the second Turcoman.
He did not nod now, for, lying down as he was, his head could not shake and wabble.
He greeted me with a brief nod and a grim smile, but did not pretermit his paternal functions.
The hinge joint thus formed allows the head to nod forward, while ligaments prevent it from moving too far.
Glencore arose as he said this, and, with a nod of leave-taking, retired to his room.
As for the dead man, he read his epitaph in a phrase, accompanied by a meaning nod toward the disfigured and insentient head.
With a nod to a couple of Archbishops Lady marchpane led the way to a little gallery whither the crowd had not penetrated.
He never saluted me with other than what I regarded as a supercilious nod of the head.
I saw her feel the vibe from her phone, then look down at it and then back at me and nod vigorously.
With a nod of assent the youth pushed forward, gained the rock, and found the place where water had once been, a dry hole!
With these two cold, stern men to nod approval at his zealousness, he went to greater lengths than he might otherwise have done.
In that immovable man it was startling, ominous, like the famed nod of the Commander.
Turbans and chimney-pots salaam to each other, and fezzes nod to straw hats and wide-awakes.
He was in his mid-twenties, young and slick, his only nod to academe a small goatee.
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