Sentence examples for a modest wave from inspiring English sources

The elder Mr. Cuomo stood and gave a modest wave toward the crowd, blew a kiss toward his son, gave him a thumbs-up and quickly sat down again.

We had been out to dinner with our editor at Vanity Fair and Christopher's great champion, Graydon Carter, and surfed into the bar on a modest wave of booze at about two in the morning.

In recent years, Daimler cut its work force worldwide by about 70,000 employees, to 300,000, and though strong demand for the company's products led to a modest wave of hiring last year and this, the unemployment rate in Stuttgart hovers at 8percentt, well below the national average but troubling nonetheless.

There was no grand introduction, no first-ball ceremony -- just a modest wave by President Bush to the crowd after arriving with 10-year-old grandson George P. Bush and Budget Director Richard Darman and son Willie in the box of Orioles principal shareholder Eli Jacobs.

The move into China is not coming just at the expense of factories and workers in Japan but also in Southeast Asia, where many Japanese manufacturers turned in the 1980's and early 90's during a more modest wave of foreign expansion.

If recent history is any guide, even a modest shock wave from across the ocean could throw the American economy off course; earlier this year, a series of shocks from higher oil prices, the Japanese earthquake and the stalemate over the United States debt ceiling managed to drain the energy from the recovery.

When he sank the putt that gave him the title, he gave one more modest wave.

Water temperatures are in the upper 70s to low 80s with modest wave heights of one to two feet.

Water temperatures are in the upper 70s (north) to low 80s (south), with modest wave heights of one to two feet.

In addition, the modest waves in the stream have increased in amplitude so that they curve north and south more frequently, bringing more weather systems northwards and southwards.

Jane Lubchenco, the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told reporters that the weakening storm system had produced modest waves of three to five feet in the area around the well and that the waves would grow only a bit more as it moved through.